State v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the majority of jurisdictions that have addressed the issue do not allow multiple murder convictions when only one person is killed
• “[T]he crime of murder of a single victim necessarily results in one [murder] conviction and one sentence.”
• “[T]he crime of murder of a single victim necessarily results in one conviction and one sentence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Soza
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2020-05-14· cited 10×
• State of Arizona v. William Maurice Brown
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2026-05-08

Cites

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

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Ball v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-26· cited 1,092×
• Ohio v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-02· cited 1,064×
• State v. Henderson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2005-07-08· cited 1,009×
• Ervin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-01-13· cited 381×
• People v. Lowe
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-04-04· cited 244×
• State v. Anderson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2005-05-04· cited 191×
• Gray v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-01-16· cited 134×
• State v. Schantz
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1965-06-23· cited 126×
• Callis v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1985-01-14· cited 115×
• Martinez Chavez v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-03-01· cited 114×
• State v. Greenawalt
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-01-23· cited 107×
• State v. Gordon
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-07-18· cited 105×
• State v. Tucker
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2003-05-05· cited 101×
• State v. Hickman
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2003-05-19· cited 100×
• State v. Martinez-Villareal
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-07-10· cited 98×
• State of Arizona v. Powers
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2001-05-23· cited 93×
• State v. Gerlaugh
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-10-19· cited 91×
• State v. Eagle
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2000-02-23· cited 55×