Wallace v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that a trier of fact has the right to reject a defendant’s testimony supporting a claim of self-defense in light of evidence to the contrary
• holding photographs were not particularly gruesome, the probative value of the photographs outweighed any prejudicial impact, and the court did not err by allowing the photographs into evidence
• the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it chose to not consider the defendant’s self-defense argument as mitigator after a jury rejected the claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-06-28· cited 205×
• Mayes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-03-13· cited 74×
• Henson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2003-04-14· cited 65×
• Willis v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2008-06-10· cited 45×
• Chambliss v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-04-24· cited 44×
• Kilpatrick v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-04-11· cited 37×
• Brand v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-04-29· cited 37×
• Randolph v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-09-28· cited 35×
• Albrecht v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-10-19· cited 33×
• Hood v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-12-06· cited 29×
• Razien McCullough v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-04-19· cited 28×
• Melvin Wolf v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-05-05· cited 24×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-11-15· cited 21×
• Lampkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-11-22· cited 20×
• Custis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-08-26· cited 12×
• Rogers v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-09-10· cited 9×
• Jeremy Fitzgerald v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-02-12· cited 6×
• Castor v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-09-13· cited 5×
• Green v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-07-27· cited 5×
• Larry Ervin v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-11-28· cited 4×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Carter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-05-27· cited 142×
• Kiefer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1958-11-18· cited 133×
• McEwen v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-04-30· cited 77×
• Sanders v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-01-07· cited 77×
• Birdsong v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-09-04· cited 65×
• Byers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-05-03· cited 55×
• Loy v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-07-08· cited 38×
• Harrison v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-08-24· cited 22×
• McCord v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-10-26· cited 20×
• Shields v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-08-21· cited 19×