People v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that where no direct evidence of defendant’s mental state exists, the jury must infer mens rea circumstantially
• noting that where no direct evidence of defendant's mental state exists, the jury must infer mens rea circumstantially
• “Often there is no direct evidence of a defendant’s mental state and the jury must infer the mens rea circumstantially from the surrounding facts.”
• “Logically, a defendant cannot act with a specified purpose unless an intent is formed to carry out that purpose. Thus, courts in this State have uniformly read the ‘for the purpose’ language as an intent element of the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Steinberg
  New York Court of Appeals· 1992-06-11· cited 348×
• People v. Suarez
  New York Court of Appeals· 2005-12-22· cited 311×
• People v. Ryan
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-12-16· cited 224×
• People v. Gordon
  New York Court of Appeals· 2014-06-12· cited 144×
• People v. Cabassa
  New York Court of Appeals· 1992-07-02· cited 73×
• United States v. Desena
  Second Circuit· 2002-04-09· cited 62×
• People v. Miller
  New York Court of Appeals· 1995-12-07· cited 61×
• United States v. Pereira-Gomez
  Second Circuit· 2018-09-07· cited 49×
• People v. Hughes
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2001-02-01· cited 27×
• People v. Dickinson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2020-04-16· cited 21×
• People v. Byrd
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2017-07-20· cited 19×
• People v. Alexander
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2008-04-08· cited 18×
• People v. Sanabria
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-11-09· cited 18×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2022-02-17· cited 15×
• In re Kadeem W.
  New York Court of Appeals· 2005-11-21· cited 14×
• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2007-03-16· cited 13×
• D.H. v. City of N.Y.
  S.D. Illinois· 2018-01-09· cited 13×
• Patricia H. v. Richard H.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-11-24· cited 11×
• Messana v. Messana
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2014-03-19· cited 11×
• Farrington v. Senkowski
  S.D. New York· 1998-09-11· cited 10×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Contes
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-09-01· cited 12,727×
• People v. Kennedy
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-06-05· cited 363×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-02-24· cited 112×
• People v. Chessman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1980-06-16· cited 28×
• People v. Lopez
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1977-06-02· cited 20×
• People v. Nixon
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1989-12-07· cited 18×
• People v. Chessman
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-10-29· cited 12×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1990-10-05· cited 2×