Rosas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the district court erred in rejecting a jury instruction on self-defense for defendant charged with battery upon a police officer
• concluding the defendant was entitled to a jury instruction on self-defense because \some evidence\ in the record supported a self-defense theory
• stating that an instruction on a lesser-included offense is not an invitation to the jury to return a compromise verdict
• observing that harmless-error review applies to \the complete failure to instruct the jury on an affirmative defense\
• reiterating that the district court can refuse a lesser-included-offense instruction when not supported by trial evidence and the State met its burden of proof on the greater offense
• holding self-defense instruction warranted where some evidenceS showed officer assailed defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• SENA (CHRISTOPHER) v. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-05-26· cited 4×
• CABRERA (IVONNE) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-12-26· cited 3×
• Byars v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2014-10-16
• LaChance v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2014-04-03
• Davis v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2014-03-27
• Kelley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2016-04-28
• COLLINS (LESEAN) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2017-11-22
• ALOTAIBI (MAZEN) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2017-11-09
• SWEAT (LONNIE) VS. DIST. CT. (STATE)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2017-10-05
• MANNING (JAMES) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2016-09-15
• MCNAMARA (JAMES) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2016-08-12
• KELLEY (JUSTIN) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2016-04-28
• Taylor (Terrell) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-12-16
• Guerrina (Robert) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-01-24
• Brown (Majunique) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-12-14
• Boyd (Keair) v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-01-13
• PINNEY JR. (KENNETH) v. STATE
  Court of Appeals of Nevada· 2024-11-21

Cites

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

• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Schmuck v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 1,390×
• Keeble v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 1,048×
• Hopper v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 715×
• Hooks v. Ward
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-07-16· cited 246×
• Crawford v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 230×
• Lisby v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1966-05-18· cited 87×
• State v. McNair
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-09-05· cited 82×
• Williams v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 42×
• Barton v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-09-12· cited 32×
• Moore v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1989-06-30· cited 29×
• Peck v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-08-24· cited 27×
• State v. Moore
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1925-02-17· cited 27×
• People v. Brown
  California Court of Appeal· 1955-03-21· cited 26×
• State v. Oschoa
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1926-01-12· cited 24×
• Rice v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 23×
• Wegner v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-12-05· cited 23×
• Knight v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-02-03· cited 19×
• State v. Mendez
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-11-27· cited 16×
• Holbrook v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1974-02-12· cited 12×