State v. Fell

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “the Sixth Amendment does not require that a jury find an aggravating circumstance before a natural life sentence can be imposed”
• holding that trial judge can permissibly choose between life with parole and life without parole under Apprendi, but only because legislature did not require courts to find specific additional facts before imposing life without parole
• finding changes to sentencing circumstances a substantive change to the law requiring an express declaration of retroactivity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Martinez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2005-07-08· cited 117×
• State v. Garrymore
  Montana Supreme Court· 2006-10-02· cited 66×
• Weaver v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-04-18· cited 57×
• People v. Hyatt
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2016-07-21· cited 57×
• Creekmore v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-09-07· cited 46×
• State v. Provost
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2005-12-23· cited 30×
• Garcia v. Browning
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2007-02-09· cited 24×
• State v. Williams
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2008-11-07· cited 24×
• Town of Gilbert Prosecutor's Office v. Downie
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2008-08-04· cited 24×
• Banks v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-02-06· cited 20×
• State v. Rios
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2010-08-12· cited 16×
• State v. Montes
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2011-01-26· cited 9×
• State v. Carver
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2011-06-28· cited 5×
• State v. Cheramie
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2007-11-30· cited 4×
• Staples v. Concord Equities, L.L.C.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2009-03-31· cited 3×
• David Garcia v. State of Arizona
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2006-09-05· cited 3×
• Yako William Collins v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2021-06-11· cited 3×
• State of Arizona v. Beau John Greene
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2023-04-14· cited 3×
• Hing v. Maricopa County
  Arizona Tax Court· 2010-05-04· cited 2×
• Gilbert Prosecutor v. Hon. downie/matykiewicz
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2008-08-04

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• United States v. Booker
  Supreme Court· 2004-10-01· cited 23,210×
• Blakely v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 13,994×
• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• State v. Gretzler
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-01-06· cited 374×
• State v. Correll
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1986-01-28· cited 157×
• State v. Sweet
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-01-16· cited 136×
• City of Mesa v. Killingsworth
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1964-07-21· cited 120×
• State v. Ring
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2001-06-20· cited 116×
• State v. Brown
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2004-10-27· cited 54×
• Aranda v. Industrial Com'n of Arizona
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2000-11-01· cited 53×
• Galloway v. Vanderpool
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2003-05-23· cited 42×
• State v. Viramontes
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2003-01-08· cited 39×
• State v. Murray
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1999-06-18· cited 27×
• State v. Fell
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2004-09-23· cited 22×
• State v. Wagner
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1999-05-26· cited 14×
• State v. Grier
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-09-27· cited 14×
• State v. Ovind
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1996-03-12· cited 9×