State v. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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

• it is permissible to separate prior convictions rather than listing all of the prior convictions together as one statutory aggravator
• fact that trial judge noted discomfort with an all-white jury for a black defendant showed that judge was basing a decision on totality of the circumstances; denial of Batson challenge was affirmed
• \Prosecutors are given broad discretion in seeking the death penalty\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2009-05-26· cited 156×
• State v. Bateman
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2010-08-03· cited 120×
• State v. Cole
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-02-26· cited 112×
• State v. McFadden
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2012-05-29· cited 98×
• State v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-06-25· cited 69×
• State v. Black
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2001-07-10· cited 69×
• State v. Goodwin
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2001-04-24· cited 66×
• State v. McFadden
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2013-01-29· cited 55×
• State v. Marlowe
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-11-26· cited 54×
• Taylor v. Roper
  Eighth Circuit· 2009-08-19· cited 14×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2004-01-27· cited 13×
• State ex rel. Leon v. Taylor and Willie Kelly Owens, Relators v. Terry Russell
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2014-12-09· cited 12×
• State v. Whitby
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-02-07· cited 6×
• State v. Pointer
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2007-02-27· cited 4×
• State v. Williams
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2005-02-25· cited 4×
• Cook v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2004-06-28· cited 1×
• State v. McDILE
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2007-09-04
• Leon Taylor v. Donald Roper
  Eighth Circuit· 2009-08-19
• State of Missouri v. Craig Michael Wood
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2019-07-16
• State of Missouri v. Kevin Johnson, and State of Missouri v. Kevin Johnson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2022-11-28

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Purkett v. Elem
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-15· cited 3,008×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Wayte v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 1,692×
• State v. Antwine
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1987-12-15· cited 533×
• Poland v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 338×
• Missouri v. Parker
  Supreme Court· 1992-11-30· cited 306×
• State v. Tokar
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1996-03-26· cited 285×
• State v. Parker
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1992-07-21· cited 259×
• State v. Parker
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1994-11-22· cited 231×
• State v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1997-06-17· cited 197×
• State v. Mallett
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1987-07-14· cited 195×
• State v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1988-07-26· cited 187×
• State of Alabama v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1962-06-22· cited 176×
• State v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1994-11-22· cited 170×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1996-08-20· cited 168×
• State v. Shaw
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1982-08-02· cited 165×