Johnson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a mentally competent defendant has the absolute right to prohibit defense counsel from interposing an insanity defense over his express objection
• holding that a defendant who is mentally competent to stand trial has an absolute right to preclude counsel's arguing an insanity defense
• noting that an evidentiary hearing may \be of little value\ when the issue presented is purely legal
• noting SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 6 1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rhyne v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2002-01-16· cited 80×
• O'NEILL v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2007-03-08· cited 37×
• Hymon v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-05-26· cited 32×
• Hooks v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2008-02-21· cited 30×
• McLaren v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2017-12-28· cited 7×
• People v. Bergerud
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2008-09-18· cited 5×
• Boyd (Keair) v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-01-13
• Rodriguez (Pedro) v. State (Death Penalty-Pc)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-08-19
• Hall (Bryan) v. State (Death Penalty-Pc)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-12-08

Cites

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

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Jones v. Barnes
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 7,925×
• Arizona v. Fulminante
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 6,060×
• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• McKaskle v. Wiggins
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,288×
• Godinez v. Moran
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 1,916×
• Thomas A. Johnson v. Jack R. Duckworth, Superintendent, and Indiana Attorney General
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-06-19· cited 130×
• State v. Jones
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-07-21· cited 113×
• State v. Lowenfield
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1986-02-06· cited 109×
• United States v. C. Scott Flewitt, and B. Todd Flewitt
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-05-10· cited 103×
• State v. Ware
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-08-29· cited 66×
• Daniels v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-04-02· cited 62×
• Jacobs v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-01-31· cited 61×
• Treece v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-10-11· cited 61×
• Steese v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-05-19· cited 59×
• Bobby R. Savage v. Wayne Estelle, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-02-05· cited 56×
• Tanksley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-09-17· cited 45×
• People v. Anderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-09-23· cited 42×
• Lyons v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-07-18· cited 40×
• Graves v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-02-29· cited 37×