Wilson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• ordering an evidentiary hearing on whether Alabama’s use of electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment
• ordering an evidentiary hearing on whether Alabama's use of electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment.
• a defendant's previous criminal activity is generally admissible in the penalty phase as non-statutory aggravating evidence
• affirming death sentence of co-perpetrator

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wilson v. Sellers
  Supreme Court· 2018-04-17· cited 1,836×
• Gissendaner v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-05· cited 131×
• Butts v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-04-30· cited 90×
• Morrow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-06-12· cited 90×
• Pace v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-03· cited 86×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-11-30· cited 81×
• Heidler v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 77×
• Carruthers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-03-06· cited 73×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-11-19· cited 72×
• Brockman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 71×
• Lance v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 70×
• Braley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-11-12· cited 70×
• Sallie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-03-24· cited 58×
• Holsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-12-02· cited 56×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-01-07· cited 55×
• Westmoreland v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-06-28· cited 51×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-11-02· cited 46×
• O'KELLEY v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-03· cited 44×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-09-19· cited 44×
• Colwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 41×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Robinson v. California
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 2,369×
• Trop v. Dulles
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 2,182×
• Ford v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,525×
• Coker v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 1,233×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Green v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-29· cited 672×
• Louisiana Ex Rel. Francis v. Resweber
  Supreme Court· 1947-02-10· cited 571×
• Dawson v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 544×
• Stanford v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 438×
• Timberlake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-09-23· cited 307×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-10-30· cited 182×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• DeYoung v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-11-24· cited 174×