Thompson v. Oklahoma

How courts have described this case

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

• \[t]he aggravating and mitigating circumstances contained in Alabama's new Death Penalty Act are identical to those in the Florida Act\
• new Alabama statute analogous to Florida’s, with eight aggravating and seven mitigating factors, held valid
• available on LEXIS, States library, Omni file
• available on LEXIS, States library, Omni file

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Beck v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1981-03-06· cited 434×
• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• Ford v. Strickland
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-01-07· cited 223×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-07-08· cited 199×
• Carl Albert Collins v. A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-04-24· cited 165×
• Price v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1997-06-20· cited 127×
• Knotts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-06-16· cited 108×
• Lawhorn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-09-21· cited 100×
• Ex Parte Giles
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1994-01-14· cited 97×
• Bufford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1980-02-26· cited 93×
• Ex Parte Hays
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1988-02-29· cited 78×
• Morrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-10-22· cited 76×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-05-01· cited 74×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-07-06· cited 62×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-10-22· cited 59×
• Clisby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1983-07-19· cited 58×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-11-26· cited 48×
• Snyder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-10-31· cited 48×
• Robitaille v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2005-11-23· cited 47×
• Billy Woodard v. Willis Sargent, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-01-28· cited 46×