Sheriff, Washoe County v. Middleton

How courts have described this case

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

• “The state is required only to show a hypothesis that death occurred by criminal agency; it is not required to show a hypothesis of a specific cause of death.”
• \The state is required only to show a hypothesis that death occurred by criminal agency; it is not required to show a hypothesis of a specific cause of death.\
• “[W]e now clarify that at the preliminary hearing stage, the state's burden with respect to the corpus delicti is the same as its burden to show probable cause. The state must present evidence supporting a ‘reasonable inference’ of death by criminal agency.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Severson
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2009-05-29· cited 298×
• Middleton v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-11-25· cited 124×
• State v. Azad Haji Abdullah
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2015-03-02· cited 106×
• Tabish v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-07-14· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Ricker, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-28· cited 27×
• Patterson v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2013-04-04· cited 21×
• Sheriff v. Dhadda
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1999-07-22· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Perkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-01-14· cited 10×
• State v. McGill
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2014-05-02· cited 8×
• Baltazar-Monterrosa v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2006-07-13· cited 7×
• Middleton v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-10-14· cited 2×
• Talley (Charles) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2021-10-15
• Snipes (Andre) v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-02-17

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sheriff v. Hodes
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1980-02-15· cited 56×
• Kinsey v. Sheriff, Washoe County
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1971-07-13· cited 42×
• Azbill v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1968-05-15· cited 32×
• Hicks v. Sheriff, Clark County
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1970-01-27· cited 14×
• Frutiger v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1995-11-30· cited 13×
• Graves v. Sheriff, Clark County
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1972-07-20· cited 8×
• Hooker v. Sheriff, Clark County
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1973-03-08· cited 7×
• Sheriff, Clark County v. Larsgaard
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1980-09-25· cited 5×
• Myatt v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-12-20· cited 3×
• Sheriff v. Milton
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1993-04-27· cited 3×