State v. Copeland

How courts have described this case

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

• color photograph depicting child's head which had been partially blown away by shotgun blast held admissible
• prosecutor's waving a gruesome photo at jury and urging jury to look at it if they become \weak kneed\ during deliberations held not improper
• conviction for first degree murder upheld where state failed to prove existence of one predicate felony but did establish killing occurred during commission of a second predicate felony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Casey
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2000-01-26· cited 484×
• State v. Draughn
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2007-01-17· cited 292×
• State v. Wille
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1990-03-12· cited 269×
• State v. Bourque
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1993-07-01· cited 265×
• State v. Seals
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1996-11-25· cited 223×
• State v. Robertson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1994-01-14· cited 220×
• State v. Snyder
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-04-14· cited 201×
• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1994-10-21· cited 192×
• State v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1994-11-30· cited 185×
• State v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2008-01-16· cited 173×
• State v. Weary
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2006-06-23· cited 172×
• State v. Scales
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1995-05-22· cited 164×
• State v. Thibodeaux
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-09-08· cited 161×
• State v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2000-04-11· cited 159×
• State v. Manning
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2004-10-19· cited 159×
• State v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-04-23· cited 148×
• State v. Cousan
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1996-11-25· cited 125×
• State v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1990-03-12· cited 123×
• State v. Wessinger
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-05-28· cited 121×
• State v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2008-05-21· cited 111×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Francis v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
• California v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-27· cited 1,207×
• Spaziano v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 1,061×
• Gray v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-18· cited 634×
• Arizona v. Mauro
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-26· cited 418×
• State v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1987-04-06· cited 345×
• State v. Brogdon
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1984-09-10· cited 247×
• State v. Graham
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1982-10-18· cited 204×
• State v. Watson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1984-02-27· cited 170×
• State v. Lindsey
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1981-09-08· cited 170×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1984-01-16· cited 163×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1985-06-20· cited 158×
• State v. Perry
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1986-11-24· cited 128×
• State v. Brogdon
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1983-01-10· cited 124×
• State v. Kirkpatrick
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1983-11-28· cited 119×