McPherson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the Spencer factors in a case involving attempted unintentional second-degree murder
• defendant properly permitted to plead to attempted unintentional second-degree murder even though crime requires mental state that cannot legally exist
• defendant properly permitted to plead to attempted unintentional second-degree murder even though crime requires mental state that cannot legally exist
• defendant properly permitted to plead to attempted unintentional second-degree murder even though crime requires mental state that cannot legally exist
• as part of a plea agreement, defendant properly pled no contest to nonexistent crime of attempted second- degree unintentional murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ebaben
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2012-07-20· cited 28×
• State v. Pollman
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2019-05-10· cited 9×
• State v. Flores
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2011-06-03· cited 4×
• State v. Tony T. Sweet
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2025-08-20

Cites

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

• Boykin v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 12,640×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• United States v. Broce
  Supreme Court· 1989-01-23· cited 1,790×
• People v. Keizer
  New York Court of Appeals· 2003-04-08· cited 328×
• Downer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-06-22· cited 61×
• State v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2006-06-16· cited 56×
• State v. Shannon
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-10-27· cited 48×
• State v. Moody
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2006-10-27· cited 47×
• State v. Mathis
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2006-03-17· cited 40×
• State v. McCurry
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2005-02-18· cited 39×
• Easterwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2002-04-19· cited 37×
• People v. Myrieckes
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-08-02· cited 35×
• Woodberry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2004-02-13· cited 34×
• State v. Zimmerman & Schmidt
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-03-26· cited 30×
• People v. Genes
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1975-01-28· cited 30×
• State v. Gayden
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2006-03-17· cited 25×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1998-03-06· cited 14×
• Sanders v. City of Kansas City
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1993-08-20· cited 12×
• Spencer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1997-07-18· cited 11×
• State v. Marks
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1990-08-03· cited 5×