State v. Brown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding the court did not abuse its discretion by showing the jury a videotape of the crime scene
• explaining that the State must use ―scrupulous care‖ when prosecuting capital cases
• affirming trial court’s refusal to give self-defense instruction where there was “no credible evidence that defendant might have been justified in using deadly force to protect himself or that he reasonably believed himself to be in danger”
• upholding constitutionality of Utah's death penalty scheme

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Smith v. Murray
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,683×
• State v. Torrence
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-05-20· cited 352×
• State v. Menzies
  Utah Supreme Court· 1994-03-29· cited 259×
• State v. Lafferty
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-01-11· cited 244×
• Jones v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1987-01-28· cited 241×
• State v. Wood
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-05-13· cited 180×
• State v. Osborn
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1981-07-09· cited 167×
• State v. Rizzo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-10-14· cited 127×
• State v. Young
  Utah Supreme Court· 1993-03-17· cited 103×
• State v. Lafferty
  Utah Supreme Court· 2001-02-23· cited 89×
• State v. Carter
  Utah Supreme Court· 1995-01-18· cited 87×
• State v. Beam
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1985-10-24· cited 85×
• Borchardt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-13· cited 74×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-02-19· cited 58×
• Andrews v. Shulsen
  Tenth Circuit· 1986-10-06· cited 49×
• Andrews v. Morris
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-11-16· cited 47×
• Oken v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-11-17· cited 43×
• State v. Holland
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-06-21· cited 41×
• State v. Gardner
  Utah Supreme Court· 1997-09-30· cited 37×
• State v. Berriel
  Utah Supreme Court· 2013-04-05· cited 33×

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Trop v. Dulles
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 2,182×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Gardner v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-22· cited 1,935×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Coker v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 1,233×
• Roberts v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-12· cited 802×
• Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co.
  Supreme Court· 1931-05-18· cited 659×
• Presnell v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1978-11-06· cited 191×
• State v. Pierre
  Utah Supreme Court· 1977-11-25· cited 121×
• State v. Castillo
  Utah Supreme Court· 1969-07-23· cited 37×
• State v. Sinclair
  Utah Supreme Court· 1964-02-18· cited 29×
• State v. Andrews
  Utah Supreme Court· 1978-02-27· cited 29×
• State v. Sullivan
  Utah Supreme Court· 1957-02-20· cited 26×
• Leetham v. McGinn
  Utah Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 24×