State v. Medrano

How courts have described this case

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

• finding of “cruelty” cannot be supported in absence of conclusive evidence that victim was conscious before death
• victim's knowledge of her pregnancy \would likely have contributed significantly to her mental suffering\
• victim’s knowledge of her pregnancy “would likely have contributed significantly to her mental suffering”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Bible
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-08-12· cited 658×
• State v. Soto-Fong
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1996-11-19· cited 182×
• State v. Courchesne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-06-15· cited 86×
• State v. Murdaugh
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2004-09-15· cited 58×
• State v. Poyson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2000-07-06· cited 57×
• Jimmie Wayne Jeffers v. Samuel Lewis, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Donald B. Wawrzaszek, Superintendent, Arizona State Prison
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-09-17· cited 33×
• State v. Medrano
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1996-04-02· cited 33×
• State v. Richmond
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1994-12-15· cited 28×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• State v. Gretzler
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-01-06· cited 374×
• 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. Carver
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-04-11· cited 211×
• State v. Adamson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-04-11· cited 201×
• State v. Knapp
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-03-09· cited 183×
• State v. Fulminante
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-07-11· cited 146×
• State v. Ortiz
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-11-23· cited 110×
• State v. Valdez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-01-31· cited 98×
• State v. Dumaine
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-11-07· cited 81×
• State v. Schaaf
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1991-10-16· cited 65×
• State v. Borbon
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-09-06· cited 63×
• State v. Lopez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1990-01-16· cited 58×
• State v. Libberton
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-04-23· cited 53×
• State v. Hall
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1978-10-18· cited 34×