State v. Pierre

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the murder of three individuals within close proximity of two survivors weighed in favor of applying the aggravator
• upholding earlier version of Utah’s death penalty statute because it limited death to only “extreme and unusually serious and shocking crimes”
• upholding earlier version of Utah's death penalty statute because it limited death to only \extreme and unusually serious and shocking crimes\
• discussing whether the events occurred in a \brief span of time\ such that they formed a \concatenating series of events\
• prosecution is not required to disprove mitigating circumstances; burden would be impossible to sustain in many instances
• prosecution is not required to disprove mitigating circumstances; burden would be impossible to sustain in many instances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Ramseur
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-03-05· cited 731×
• State v. Brown
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-07-24· cited 632×
• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• People v. Drake
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-01-11· cited 288×
• State v. Bishop
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-02-03· cited 250×
• State v. Lafferty
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-01-11· cited 244×
• State v. Knight
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-03-19· cited 236×
• State v. Dicks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1981-02-02· cited 214×
• State v. Tillman
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-12-22· cited 213×
• Keith Daniel Williams v. Arthur Calderon, Warden, San Quentin State Prison
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-04-07· cited 180×
• State v. Wood
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-05-13· cited 180×
• Andrews v. Deland
  Tenth Circuit· 1991-08-23· cited 154×
• People v. Garcia
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-06-17· cited 130×
• Houston v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1980-01-07· cited 128×
• Codianna v. Morris
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-03-01· cited 119×
• State v. Young
  Utah Supreme Court· 1993-03-17· cited 103×
• State v. Gardner
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-01-31· cited 90×
• State v. Lafferty
  Utah Supreme Court· 2001-02-23· cited 89×
• State v. Carter
  Utah Supreme Court· 1995-01-18· cited 87×
• State v. Norton
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-12-29· cited 84×

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Harrington v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 2,732×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-30· cited 1,758×
• Shelton v. Tucker
  Supreme Court· 1960-12-12· cited 1,729×
• Estes v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,725×
• Murphy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 1,568×
• Rideau v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-03· cited 1,211×
• Hopt v. People of Territory of Utah
  Supreme Court· 1884-03-03· cited 1,005×
• Bellotti v. Baird
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-01· cited 609×
• State v. Poe
  Utah Supreme Court· 1968-06-04· cited 56×
• State v. Scandrett
  Utah Supreme Court· 1970-04-21· cited 48×
• State v. Gillian
  Utah Supreme Court· 1970-01-08· cited 32×
• State v. Seymour
  Utah Supreme Court· 1966-08-11· cited 31×