State v. Ward

How courts have described this case

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

• death penalty may be justified when a \single consecutive course of conduct\ contemplates and causes the death of one person and great bodily harm to another

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Bourque
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1993-07-01· cited 265×
• State v. Sanders
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1994-11-30· cited 185×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1998-05-28· cited 128×
• State v. Perry
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1986-11-24· cited 128×
• State v. Wessinger
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-05-28· cited 121×
• State v. Comeaux
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1997-07-01· cited 118×
• Ward v. Whitley
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-05-18· cited 117×
• State v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1989-01-30· cited 112×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1987-10-19· cited 88×
• State v. Odenbaugh
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2011-12-06· cited 84×
• State v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2008-12-02· cited 83×
• State v. Hobley
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-12-15· cited 83×
• State v. Deboue
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1989-06-19· cited 73×
• State v. Langley
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1998-06-19· cited 67×
• State v. Tassin
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1988-12-12· cited 64×
• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2005-01-19· cited 63×
• State v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1992-03-02· cited 63×
• Ward v. Cain
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-05-16· cited 62×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1992-11-12· cited 61×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1986-06-02· cited 54×

Cites

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

• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Francis v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
• McDougall v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 975×
• State v. Prieur
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1973-03-29· cited 910×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• Tichnell v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 261×
• State v. Gibson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1980-11-10· cited 246×
• State v. Narcisse
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1983-01-25· cited 222×
• Grigsby v. Mabry
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-01-30· cited 185×
• Watson v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-14· cited 174×
• State v. Watson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1984-02-27· cited 170×
• V. J. S. v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1983-11-28· cited 160×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1985-06-20· cited 158×
• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1978-03-06· cited 145×
• State v. Monroe
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1981-04-06· cited 135×
• State v. Boyer
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1981-11-16· cited 130×
• State v. Kirkpatrick
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1983-11-28· cited 119×
• Thomas v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-25· cited 119×