Santillanes 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 jury could infer defendant’s consciousness of guilt based upon prosecutor’s comments regarding defendant’s failure to attend meetings with the police
• holding that evidence which shows consciousness of guilt is admissible
• determining that a jury may reasonably infer the defendant's consciousness of guilt from the defendant's conduct of failing to attend a previously agreed-upon meeting with police
• admitting in a criminal case the results of a blood enzyme identification test into evidence, which had resulted in only two errors in over 1,100 trials
• sufficient documentation of reliability and criticism of test goes to credibility, not admissibility
• sufficient documentation of reliability and criticism of test goes to credibility, not admissibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Lord
  Washington Supreme Court· 1992-02-07· cited 447×
• Hallmark v. Eldridge
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2008-07-24· cited 82×
• Howard v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-11-07· cited 61×
• People v. Smith
  California Court of Appeal· 1989-09-27· cited 26×
• Bolin v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-05-19· cited 24×
• Bellon v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-08-11· cited 23×
• People v. Gistover
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1991-05-06· cited 22×
• Thomas v. Hardwick
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2010-05-27· cited 19×
• Dettloff v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-09-16· cited 13×
• Smith v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1995-04-27· cited 11×
• State, Department of Motor Vehicles v. Bremer
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-07-15· cited 11×
• State v. Foote
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1990-05-29· cited 7×
• Athey v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-08-21· cited 3×
• People v. Saathoff
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1992-03-26· cited 2×
• Harris (Mariann) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-07-31

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• Maresca v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1987-12-31· cited 328×
• State v. Driver
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1962-07-19· cited 133×
• State v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1981-01-17· cited 85×
• People v. Young
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1986-08-05· cited 79×
• Daly v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-06-24· cited 59×
• Warden, Nevada State Prison v. Lischko
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1974-06-10· cited 51×
• Williams v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1969-03-17· cited 33×
• Yates v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1987-03-31· cited 29×
• Deeds v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1981-04-10· cited 27×
• Williams v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1979-12-11· cited 26×
• American Elevator Co. v. Briscoe
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1977-12-27· cited 20×
• State v. Green
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1965-04-13· cited 20×
• United States v. Stephen Ray Mitchell, A/K/A James Alexander Mitchell
  Eighth Circuit· 1977-07-27· cited 13×
• Santillanes v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1986-02-21· cited 7×
• Aguilar v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1982-01-28· cited 7×