State v. Laws

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant was part of a gang which robbed and killed the elderly
• defendant was part of a gang which robbed and killed the elderly

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Ervin
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1992-09-22· cited 246×
• State v. McMillin
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1990-02-13· cited 215×
• State v. Wise
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1994-08-15· cited 179×
• Leonard Marvin Laws v. Bill Armontrout
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-12-20· cited 152×
• State v. Schneider
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1987-09-15· cited 133×
• State v. Preston
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1984-05-15· cited 125×
• State v. Copeland
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1996-08-20· cited 114×
• State v. Kilgore
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1989-06-13· cited 113×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1991-07-23· cited 107×
• John E. Winfield v. Don Roper, Superintendent
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-08-22· cited 92×
• State v. Nave
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1985-08-07· cited 89×
• State v. Byrd
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1984-09-11· cited 85×
• State v. Powell
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1990-11-20· cited 82×
• State v. Walls
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1988-02-17· cited 62×
• State v. Owsley
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1997-12-23· cited 56×
• State v. Gilmore
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1985-09-10· cited 54×
• State v. Armentrout
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2000-01-25· cited 54×
• State v. Parkus
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1988-05-17· cited 52×
• Laws v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1986-02-04· cited 40×
• Leonard Marvin Laws v. Bill Armontrout
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-12-09· cited 36×

Cites

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

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Newlon v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 261×
• State v. McDonald
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-11-22· cited 175×
• State v. Mercer
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1981-05-11· cited 151×
• Arnold v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-04-06· cited 133×
• State v. LaRette
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-03-29· cited 100×
• State v. McIlvoy
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1982-03-09· cited 95×
• State v. Battle
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-11-22· cited 80×
• State v. Stokes
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1982-08-31· cited 78×
• State v. Gilmore
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-05-31· cited 75×
• State v. Gilmore
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1983-11-22· cited 74×
• State v. Holtan
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1977-02-02· cited 71×
• Antone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-03-27· cited 66×
• State v. Finn
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1974-11-21· cited 61×
• Finney v. Balkcom
  Supreme Court· 1980-10-14· cited 58×