Payne v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that felony murder encompasses a killing linked to the predicate felony as in one continuous transaction
• observing that purpose of felony-murder rule is \to deter felons from killing negligently or accidentally by holding them strictly responsible for the killings that are the result of a felony or an attempted one\
• \one may be guilty of murder in the first degree although the intent to commit such a homicide is formed `at the very moment the fatal shot [is] fired'\
• “one may be guilty of murder in the first degree although the intent to commit such a homicide is formed ‘at the very moment the fatal shot [is] fired’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Middlebrooks
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-09-08· cited 519×
• Byford v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-02-28· cited 246×
• Leonard v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-12-09· cited 80×
• Guy v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-09-03· cited 60×
• Moser v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1975-12-30· cited 52×
• Jones v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-04-24· cited 39×
• Echavarria v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-09-03· cited 35×
• Sheriff, Clark County v. Morris
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-03-01· cited 35×
• Berkeley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-11-29· cited 31×
• People v. Urrutia
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1994-09-22· cited 23×
• State v. Anthony
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1983-02-23· cited 22×
• Warren Robert Standen v. Harol Whitley
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-06-04· cited 19×
• State v. Contreras
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2002-05-15· cited 18×
• State v. Richmond
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1975-10-01· cited 17×
• Cirillo v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1980-06-04· cited 13×
• Carr v. Sheriff, Clark County
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1979-10-22· cited 10×
• Curtis v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1977-09-22· cited 8×
• Lisenby v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1976-11-08· cited 6×
• Payne v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1969-12-01· cited 1×
• State of Tennessee v. Raymond Lee Swett, Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-01-04

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Washington
  California Supreme Court· 1965-05-25· cited 351×
• State v. Fouquette
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1950-08-10· cited 113×
• Kuk v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1964-06-02· cited 55×
• State v. Snowden
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1957-07-24· cited 52×
• Bizup v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1962-05-28· cited 50×
• State v. Hall
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1932-08-04· cited 28×
• State v. Acosta
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1926-01-12· cited 12×
• Archibald v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1961-06-19· cited 11×