State v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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

• finding unpersuasive any argument that (F)(5) factor applies only in murder for hire case and noting its applicability to any murder committed for any form of financial gain
• senseless killings of former friends and co-workers, “totally without regard for human life” found depraved
• senseless killings of former friends and co-workers, \totally without regard for human life\ found depraved
• A.R.S. § 13-703(F)(6) found where defendant killed employers who had given him “a break” after he was released from a juvenile home
• defendant murdered four people and \kept a spent bullet as a grisly souvenir of his crime\
• defendant murdered four people and “kept a spent bullet as a grisly souvenir of his crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lewis v. Jeffers
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,972×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• State v. Newell
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2006-04-26· cited 376×
• State v. Gretzler
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-01-06· cited 374×
• Poland v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 338×
• State v. Nash
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-01-09· cited 279×
• State v. Amaya-Ruiz
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1990-12-14· cited 276×
• State v. Gillies
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-03-01· cited 219×
• State v. Jeffers
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-01-24· cited 217×
• State v. Adamson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-04-11· cited 201×
• John Harvey Adamson v. James G. Ricketts, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-12-22· cited 192×
• Woodward v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-18· cited 192×
• State v. Soto-Fong
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1996-11-19· cited 182×
• State v. Tison
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-07-09· cited 175×
• State v. McDonald
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-11-22· cited 175×
• State v. Hyde
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1996-07-09· cited 167×
• State v. McCall
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-11-09· cited 164×
• State v. Greene
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1998-10-20· cited 158×
• State v. Correll
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1986-01-28· cited 157×
• State v. Chew
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1997-06-26· cited 147×

Cites

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

• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Brewer v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-16· cited 2,626×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Alford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-02-24· cited 1,352×
• Smith v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-01-29· cited 763×
• State v. Richmond
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1976-12-20· cited 250×
• State v. Watson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1978-07-20· cited 206×
• Broncucia v. Colorado
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-27· cited 188×
• State v. Knapp
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-03-09· cited 183×
• Winters v. Bohanon
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-19· cited 150×
• State v. Mata
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-03-11· cited 117×
• State v. Smith
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1979-07-26· cited 93×
• State v. Ceja
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 92×
• United States v. Eugene L. Smaldone
  Tenth Circuit· 1973-08-31· cited 83×
• State v. Lujan
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1979-11-26· cited 80×
• State v. Doss
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-07-07· cited 78×
• State v. Baumann
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1980-03-26· cited 72×
• State v. Fleming
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-11-01· cited 67×
• State v. Bojorquez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1975-05-05· cited 62×
• State v. Blazak
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-01-20· cited 56×