State v. Cornell

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding an aggravated murder statute against a claim that one of its terms — “torture”—was vague on its face
• Article I, section 21, prohibits granting “unbridled discretion” to judge and jury in respect of applying criminal statute in question
• the word \torture\ connotes that the infliction of pain is a reason for the defendant's intentional act
• the word “torture” connotes that the infliction of pain is a reason for the defendant’s intentional act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Montez
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1990-04-03· cited 170×
• State v. Langley
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1992-09-17· cited 134×
• State v. Wagner
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1988-02-26· cited 124×
• State v. Plowman
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1992-08-27· cited 123×
• State v. Pinnell
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1991-02-07· cited 116×
• State v. Wagner
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1990-01-11· cited 111×
• State v. Rogers
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1992-07-09· cited 88×
• State v. Moeller
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1991-02-06· cited 84×
• Delgado v. Souders
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2002-05-16· cited 82×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-12-31· cited 44×
• Billings v. Gates
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1996-05-09· cited 39×
• State v. Cornell
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1992-11-25· cited 31×
• State v. Compton
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2002-02-07· cited 28×
• State v. Meyer
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1993-05-19· cited 25×
• State v. Pyritz
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1988-04-20· cited 20×
• Delgado v. Souders
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1997-03-05· cited 19×
• State v. Norris-Romine
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1995-05-03· cited 17×
• State v. Knobel
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1989-07-19· cited 13×
• State v. Bruce Lincoln Butterfield
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1994-05-11· cited 13×
• State v. Parra-Sanchez
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2023-03-22· cited 13×

Cites

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

• Lanzetta v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1939-03-27· cited 1,416×
• State v. Ramseur
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-03-05· cited 731×
• State v. Robertson
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1982-08-03· cited 334×
• State v. Williams
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 252×
• State v. Dicks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-02-02· cited 214×
• Commonwealth v. Pursell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-26· cited 203×
• People v. Steger
  California Supreme Court· 1976-03-12· cited 171×
• Hance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-06-24· cited 158×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-04-03· cited 154×
• State v. Moyle
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1985-08-27· cited 152×
• State v. Hodges
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1969-07-24· cited 139×
• State v. McKenzie
  Montana Supreme Court· 1980-03-27· cited 117×
• State v. Stuart
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1986-02-20· cited 80×
• Perez v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1980-06-24· cited 79×
• State v. Graves
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1985-05-29· cited 79×
• Deutscher v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1979-10-18· cited 79×
• State v. Garcias
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1984-04-03· cited 56×
• State v. Brock
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1966-07-11· cited 53×
• State v. Blair
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1979-10-16· cited 50×
• Justus v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-03-12· cited 45×