Michael v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a parent can be held responsible for an assault on their child if, knowing that the child is in danger of assault from a third person, the parent unreasonably fails to take action to protect the child
• father held criminally responsible for reckless assault for failure to protect child from mother’s abuse
• injury is a result element of crime; the defendant “only needed to be reckless concerning the risk”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Miranda
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-08-02· cited 48×
• De Nardo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-10-25· cited 34×
• People v. Rolon
  California Court of Appeal· 2008-03-11· cited 32×
• Strother v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-03-03· cited 23×
• McKillop v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1993-08-06· cited 18×
• Lane v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-06-19· cited 17×
• Stephan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-04-12· cited 13×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-10-20· cited 13×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1991-07-03· cited 13×
• State v. McCallion
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1994-06-03· cited 12×
• State v. Peters
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1989-10-02· cited 11×
• Johnson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2010-01-22· cited 9×
• State v. Stores
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-07-26· cited 6×
• Lindeman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2011-01-07· cited 6×
• Sickel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2015-12-04· cited 6×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2006-07-28· cited 4×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2008-02-01· cited 1×
• Jurco v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1991-08-30
• People v. Collins
  California Supreme Court· 2025-01-06

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Peerless Insurance v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1965-10-11· cited 91×
• Neitzel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-11-19· cited 87×
• Stock v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-08-30· cited 78×
• State v. Dunlop
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1986-06-13· cited 76×
• State v. James
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1985-04-19· cited 69×
• State v. Zobel
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 67×
• Thomas v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 56×
• Palmer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-10-27· cited 56×
• People v. Burden
  California Court of Appeal· 1977-08-10· cited 54×
• Summers v. Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-01-26· cited 48×
• Beck v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1965-12-20· cited 44×
• State v. Patterson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1987-07-31· cited 25×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-02-26· cited 10×
• Simpson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-09-13· cited 5×
• Olp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1987-07-02· cited 4×