State v. Springer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an offender must be sentenced to life if the penalty-phase jury deadlocks
• holding that an offender must be sentenced to life if the penalty-phase jury deadlocks
• “in cases where, as here, the jury becomes hopelessly deadlocked during its sentencing deliberations and is unable to unani mously recommend any sentence, including death, the penalty of death is clearly unauthorized and one of the two remaining (authorized
• murder is lesser included offense of aggravated murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Mason
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1998-06-17· cited 600×
• State v. Hancock
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2006-02-01· cited 535×
• State v. Brooks
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1996-03-04· cited 426×
• Maurice A. Mason v. Betty Mitchell
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-02-06· cited 337×
• Jay D. Scott, Petitioner-Appellee v. Betty Mitchell, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/ Cross-Appellee
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-04-19· cited 307×
• State v. Robb
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2000-03-01· cited 292×
• State v. Bays
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1999-10-13· cited 239×
• State v. Monroe
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2005-05-25· cited 211×
• State v. Brown
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2003-10-08· cited 204×
• Smith v. Spisak
  Supreme Court· 2010-01-12· cited 199×
• State v. Mundt
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2007-10-03· cited 199×
• State v. Gapen
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2004-12-15· cited 186×
• Lewis Williams, Jr. v. Ralph Coyle, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-08-16· cited 151×
• John Glenn Roe v. Dennis Baker
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-02-10· cited 112×
• State v. Martin (Slip Opinion)
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2017-09-13· cited 86×
• Bedford v. Collins
  Sixth Circuit· 2009-06-04· cited 79×
• State v. Mason (Slip Opinion)
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2018-04-18· cited 63×
• State v. Hundley (Slip Opinion)
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2020-07-22· cited 55×
• State v. Robb
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2000-02-29· cited 51×
• Jerome Henderson, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Terry L. Collins, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-08-28· cited 35×