Ducksworth v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Kidnapping requires the willful seizing, confining, or carrying away of a live person.”
• “Because all of the testimony indicated that [the victim] was dead before he was moved, we conclude that no rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the kidnapping charge beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Middleton v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-11-25· cited 124×
• Garcia v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-06-23· cited 39×
• Vallery v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2002-05-17· cited 31×
• Barnier v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-04-28· cited 25×
• Mathews v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2018-08-23· cited 10×
• MATHEWS (DONOVINE) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2018-08-23

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Powell v. Nevada
  Supreme Court· 1994-03-30· cited 190×
• Koza v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1984-04-25· cited 99×
• Powell v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-09-03· cited 47×
• Briano v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1978-07-12· cited 32×
• United States v. Billy Gene Compton
  Sixth Circuit· 1966-11-21· cited 27×
• Atkins v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-08-28· cited 22×
• Harris v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-10-25· cited 22×
• Amen v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-11-28· cited 20×
• Geary v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-03-30· cited 14×
• Stevens v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1981-10-13· cited 7×
• Jefferson v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-11-05· cited 7×