Quillen v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that repeated references to holiday on which murders occurred were appeals to jurors emotions
• stating that the district court’s decision was “not clearly erroneous” without articulating a standard of review
• noting that so-called “holiday” arguments are inappropriate but rarely warrant reversal by themselves
• warning that analogizing reasonable doubt to the most important decisions in life, like choosing a spouse or buying a house, is improper because such decisions are wholly unlike the one jurors must make in a criminal case
• stating in dicta that decisions on whether to give or decline proposed jury instructions reviewed for abuse of discretion
• finding the State’s efforts reasonable when it made an effort to contact the witnesses, and it was “revealed that the witnesses quit their 26 jobs, moved out of their home some five months prior to trial, [ ] left no forwarding address ... [and potentially] returned to Mexico”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Evans v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-07-24· cited 144×
• Jackson v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-02-16· cited 116×
• McConnell v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-12-29· cited 95×
• Hollaway v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-08-23· cited 66×
• Hernandez v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2008-07-31· cited 34×
• Randolph v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-12-14· cited 32×
• Grant v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-06-13· cited 30×
• Holmes v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-12-30· cited 17×
• Noonan v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1999-07-22· cited 9×
• Keck (William) Vs. State (Death Penalty-Pc)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2021-04-09
• Clay Stuart Gregory v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-06-25

Cites

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

• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• Anderson v. Charles
  Supreme Court· 1980-08-11· cited 896×
• Harris v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1995-01-17· cited 423×
• Silks v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1976-02-12· cited 154×
• Lord v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-02-07· cited 109×
• Kazalyn v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-01-24· cited 95×
• Barron v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1989-11-27· cited 59×
• Williams v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1987-03-31· cited 58×
• Moser v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1975-12-30· cited 52×
• Dearman v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1977-07-01· cited 45×
• Boggs v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1979-12-20· cited 39×
• Aesoph v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 32×
• Keeney v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1993-03-24· cited 28×
• Tahoe Village Realty, S.A.W. Co. v. DeSmit
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1979-02-21· cited 20×
• Coleman v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1995-05-25· cited 18×
• Roberts v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1986-04-24· cited 15×
• Sanders v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1980-04-09· cited 15×
• Power v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1986-09-04· cited 13×