State v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the “great benefit” for the “sound administration of justice and efficiency in processing murder cases” supports submitting alternate forms of verdict to the jury
• urging trial courts to use alternative verdict forms to facilitate appellate review of first-degree murder convictions for eases submitted to jury on both premeditated and felony-murder theories
• proximate-cause instruction given when causation in issue and instruction helpful to jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Schad v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 1,454×
• State v. Bible
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-08-12· cited 658×
• State v. Anderson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2005-05-04· cited 191×
• State v. Galindo
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2009-10-09· cited 186×
• State v. Mott
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1997-01-16· cited 160×
• State v. West
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-09-30· cited 113×
• State v. Garza
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2007-06-29· cited 83×
• State v. Scott
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-12-21· cited 68×
• Bouwkamp v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1992-06-02· cited 67×
• State v. Schad
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-12-14· cited 64×
• State v. Jackson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1996-05-03· cited 62×
• State v. Lopez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1990-01-16· cited 58×
• State v. Krone
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1995-06-22· cited 56×
• State of Arizona v. Rodney Eugene Hardy
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2012-08-16· cited 52×
• State v. Detrich
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1994-05-05· cited 38×
• State v. Canion
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2000-12-21· cited 28×
• State of Arizona v. Jesus Xavier Almaguer
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2013-05-31· cited 21×
• State v. Finch
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2002-05-24· cited 20×
• Dawes v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-09-28· cited 10×
• O'Meara v. Gottsfield
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-05-04· cited 2×

Cites

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

• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 1,617×
• State v. Nash
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-01-09· cited 279×
• State v. Barnett
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-11-26· cited 270×
• State v. Walton
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-02-02· cited 167×
• State v. Lee
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-09-25· cited 138×
• State v. LaGrand
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1987-01-30· cited 129×
• Rose v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-03· cited 120×
• State v. Axley
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-05-10· cited 89×
• State v. Encinas
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-06-02· cited 78×
• State v. Chaney
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-07-26· cited 72×
• State v. Wiley
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-04-23· cited 60×
• State v. King
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1973-10-09· cited 53×
• State v. Evans
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1973-07-24· cited 51×
• State v. SUPERIOR CT IN & FOR MARICOPA CTY.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-07-19· cited 46×
• State v. Stephens
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1979-10-17· cited 44×
• State v. Lawson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-04-23· cited 43×
• State v. Cannon
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-12-16· cited 38×
• State v. Emery
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-06-06· cited 31×