Ochoa 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 the doctrine of transferred intent was appropriate to support an attempted-murder conviction where the unintended victim was shot but not killed and the intended victim was killed
• holding that “the doctrine of transferred intent is applicable to all crimes where an unintended victim is harmed as a result of the specific intent to harm an intended victim whether or not the intended victim is injured”
• finding no reason not to apply transferred intent in case where intended victim died and unintended victim was wounded because although charges differed the intent was the same
• evidence of prior drug transactions between victim and defendant was allowed to show history of friction which escalated to murder
• evidence of prior drug transactions between victim and defendant was allowed to show history of friction which escalated to murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Bland
  California Supreme Court· 2002-07-01· cited 444×
• State v. Dean (Slip Opinion)
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2015-10-27· cited 243×
• State v. Fennell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-05-01· cited 94×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-08-04· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Melton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-03-13· cited 54×
• Tabish v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-07-14· cited 41×
• Blow v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-08-19· cited 29×
• Living v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-05-26· cited 26×
• State v. Brady
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-07-28· cited 23×
• Ramsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2002-10-11· cited 18×
• Cockrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2004-05-07· cited 10×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-12-22· cited 10×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2018-08-15· cited 5×
• Lloyd v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2002-09-26· cited 4×
• PUNDYK (EDWARD) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-07-16· cited 3×
• State v. Phillips
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2002-05-03· cited 3×
• Bai (Xiao) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-10-15
• State v. Geter
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2021-08-04
• State of Iowa v. Anthony Alexander Mong
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2023-03-24

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Worlock
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1990-02-22· cited 213×
• Powell v. Nevada
  Supreme Court· 1994-03-30· cited 190×
• State v. Hinton
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-08-24· cited 156×
• Tinch v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-10-01· cited 70×
• Hutchins v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-02-04· cited 52×
• Powell v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-09-03· cited 47×
• People v. Birreuta
  California Court of Appeal· 1984-12-05· cited 42×
• State v. Stringfield
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1980-04-04· cited 14×
• State v. Wilson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-12-08· cited 13×
• Sheriff, Washoe County v. Fullerton
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-08-28· cited 8×