Chavez 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 admission of deceased victim’s 16 preliminary hearing testimony did not violate defendant’s Confrontation rights
• stating that this court reviews a district court's evidentiary rulings for an abuse of discretion
• explaining that this court generally will only interfere with a defendant’s sentence if the record reveals prejudice based on the district court’s consideration of information supported by impalpable or highly suspect evidence
• noting that this court reviews evidentiary rulings for an abuse of discretion
• explaining that a district court has wide discretion when imposing sentence
• explaining that a district court has wide discretion when imposing sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jeremias v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2018-03-01· cited 114×
• Blyden v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2010-07-07· cited 68×
• Vega v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2010-08-12· cited 52×
• Lipsitz v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-06-06· cited 20×
• State v. Nofoa.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2015-04-14· cited 16×
• State v. Eighth Judicial Dist. Court of Nev.
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2018-03-01· cited 13×
• RANDOLPH (THOMAS) VS. STATE (DEATH PENALTY-DIRECT)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-12-10· cited 5×
• Bowser v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-05-16· cited 3×
• ANDERSON (ARNOLD) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-11-27· cited 2×
• Dunham v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2018-09-06· cited 2×
• Locker v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-09-01· cited 2×
• VAUGHN (KENNETH) v. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2025-02-06· cited 2×
• COCKING (SAMUEL) v. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2025-04-24· cited 2×
• BROWN (LARRY) v. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-06-23· cited 1×
• Buchanan v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2014-10-02
• Sasser v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2014-05-29
• DUNHAM (JOHN) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2018-09-06
• STATE VS. DIST. CT. (BAKER (JEFFREY))
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2018-03-01
• JEREMIAS (RALPH) VS. STATE (DEATH PENALTY-DIRECT)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2018-03-01
• FARMER (STEVEN) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2017-11-16