State v. Stewart

How courts have described this case

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

• holding a finding of sexual abuse to be an objective factor which constitutionally and appropriately narrows the definition of the first prong of (l)(d)
• killing not especially heinous, atrocious or cruel, where “death was instantaneous, by reason of a gun shot wound to [victim’s] head”
• Defendant, who came \prepared to defend himself\ with a gun, shot van driver at point blank range in the back of the head. Defendant also shot second victim in the eye. Afterwards defendant set fire to the van in order to cover up the murder and shooting: Neb.Rev.Stat. Sec. 29-2523(1)(d

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

77 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. Bey
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-08-02· cited 292×
• State v. Palmer
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1986-12-29· cited 217×
• State v. Gales
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 2005-03-18· cited 200×
• Carl Albert Collins v. A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-04-24· cited 165×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1977-03-07· cited 143×
• State v. Rust
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1977-02-02· cited 131×
• State v. Simants
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1977-02-02· cited 129×
• State v. Gales
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2003-03-28· cited 124×
• State v. Dunster
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2001-08-03· cited 120×
• State v. Ryan
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1989-08-11· cited 111×
• State v. Reeves
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1984-01-20· cited 102×
• State v. Williams
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1979-12-18· cited 101×
• State v. Trevino
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1988-12-02· cited 91×
• State v. Moore
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1982-01-29· cited 90×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-05-02· cited 89×
• State v. Joubert
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1986-12-29· cited 79×
• State v. Ryan
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1987-07-24· cited 78×
• State v. Garner
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2000-07-21· cited 78×
• State v. Holtan
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1977-02-02· cited 71×

Cites

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

• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Kent v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-22· cited 2,202×
• Breed v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1975-05-27· cited 1,196×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Lynch v. Overholser
  Supreme Court· 1962-05-21· cited 478×
• In Re United States of America, United States of America v. Ray Cowan and Jack Jacobsen, Wayne O. Woodruff, Special Prosecutors
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-12-08· cited 199×
• United States v. Robert Louis Ammidown, United States of America v. Robert L. Ammidown
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-05-10· cited 193×
• State v. Rust
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1977-02-02· cited 131×
• State v. Simants
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1977-02-02· cited 129×
• Alvord v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-09-17· cited 113×
• Alford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-01-29· cited 88×
• State v. Holtan
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1977-02-02· cited 71×
• State v. McDonald
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1976-03-25· cited 67×
• United States v. Joseph J. Maggio
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-06-09· cited 48×
• State v. Russell
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1975-06-05· cited 47×
• State v. Lytle
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1975-07-24· cited 30×
• State v. Evans
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1975-10-23· cited 28×
• State v. Blackwell
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1969-03-07· cited 27×