State v. Berg

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the lesser crime must have had an \independent purpose\
• rejecting argument that evidence of restraint is insufficient to support restraint-based charge where the restraint is incidental to another charged crime, such as robbery
• “abduction can be proved in one of two ways: (1) restraint by secreting or holding a person where she is not likely to be found or (2) restraint by means of deadly force or threat of deadly force.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Rich
  Washington Supreme Court· 2016-01-07· cited 274×
• State v. Muhammad
  Washington Supreme Court· 2019-11-07· cited 52×
• State of Washington v. Travis Vern Lahman
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2021-06-15· cited 32×
• State Of Washington v. Derek Whittaker
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2016-02-01· cited 16×
• State v. Jenks
  Washington Supreme Court· 2021-05-27· cited 6×
• State of Washington v. Alex Samuel Novikoff
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2017-10-31
• State Of Washington, Resp. v. Daniel Galeana Ramirez, Alejandro Ramirez, And Steven Russell, App.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2019-01-03
• State v. Zghair
  Washington Supreme Court· 2025-04-17
• State v. Roberts
  Washington Supreme Court· 2025-07-31
• State Of Washington, V. Harlan W. Blackburn
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2026-04-20

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• State v. Green
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-08-28· cited 1,403×
• State v. Brett
  Washington Supreme Court· 1995-04-04· cited 373×
• State v. Vladovic
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-04-28· cited 258×
• State v. Berlin
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-11-20· cited 252×
• State v. Johnson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1979-10-04· cited 166×
• People v. Cassidy
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-11-30· cited 148×
• State v. Sweet
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-07-15· cited 100×
• United States v. John William Marx and William Frederick Shriver
  Tenth Circuit· 1973-11-12· cited 82×
• State v. Rattana Keo Phuong
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2013-04-22· cited 75×
• State v. Green
  Washington Supreme Court· 1979-01-05· cited 62×
• In Re the Personal Restraint of Fletcher
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-07-13· cited 53×
• State v. Louis
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-10-06· cited 47×
• State v. Butler
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-01-05· cited 42×
• State v. Korum
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2004-03-15· cited 28×
• State v. Lindsay
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-11-07· cited 18×
• United States v. Patrick Thomas Strobehn, Jr.
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-08-31· cited 14×
• State v. Grant
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-12-24· cited 13×
• State v. Whitney
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-06-09· cited 11×