State v. Murphy

How courts have described this case

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

• “Without such evidence there was no proof of any aggravating circumstances, and the sentence of death was not proper.”
• “The duty and discretion to conduct prosecutions for public offenses rests with the county attorney.”
• prosecutor has discretion whether to offer aggravating evidence and seek death penalty
• prosecutor may decide whether to present aggravating circumstances at sentencing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Atwood
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1992-07-10· cited 361×
• State v. Richmond
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1976-12-20· cited 250×
• John Harvey Adamson v. James G. Ricketts, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-12-22· cited 192×
• State v. Brewer
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1992-01-28· cited 142×
• James Dean Clark v. Samuel A. Lewis, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections and Roger Crist, Warden, Arizona State Prison
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-10-08· cited 74×
• State v. Hinchey
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1995-03-02· cited 69×
• State v. Prentiss
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-11-09· cited 61×
• State Ex Rel. Hamstead v. Dostert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-03-09· cited 47×
• Hartley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-10-29· cited 43×
• State of Arizona v. Gilbert Martinez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2012-08-17· cited 32×
• City of Phoenix v. Yarnell
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1995-12-14· cited 30×
• State v. White
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1999-06-10· cited 30×
• State v. Gooch
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-03-01· cited 28×
• State v. Cookus
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-04-25· cited 26×
• State v. Jensen
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1998-05-28· cited 26×
• State v. Marquez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1980-08-19· cited 24×
• State v. Session
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1978-01-03· cited 23×
• State v. Ramsey
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1992-03-03· cited 21×
• State v. Romero
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-09-29· cited 21×
• State v. Peltz
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2017-03-02· cited 18×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• State Ex Rel. Ronan v. Stevens
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1963-04-24· cited 20×
• State Ex Rel. Berger v. Myers
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1972-04-07· cited 17×
• State v. Stewart
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1968-09-25· cited 7×