State v. Bird

How courts have described this case

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

• “Substantial competent evidence is legal and relevant evidence a reasonable person could accept to support a conclusion.”
• \Substantial competent evidence is legal and relevant evidence a reasonable person could accept to support a conclusion.\
• among other factors, district court relied on nonviolent nature of past crimes in determining defendant was not threat to society as factor in support of departure
• acceptance of responsibility can be a mitigating factor in support of a departure.
• finding nonstatutory factors can be considered for departure sentence
• evidence defendant is not a threat to society

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jolly
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-02-20· cited 184×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2018-07-06· cited 158×
• State v. Talkington
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-03-06· cited 148×
• State v. Armstrong
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-05-23· cited 106×
• State v. Reed
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-06-19· cited 92×
• State v. Longoria
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-03-06· cited 78×
• State v. Morley
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2021-01-29· cited 57×
• State v. Theurer
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2014-11-21· cited 23×
• State v. Montgomery
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2021-08-27· cited 17×
• State v. Hayden
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2015-12-18· cited 17×
• State Ex Rel. Geary Cnty. Sheriff's Dep't v. One 2008 Toyota Tundra
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2018-02-23· cited 4×
• State v. Morley
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2019-08-16· cited 3×
• State v. Gibson
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2019-12-20· cited 2×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2017-01-20
• State v. Hughes
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2025-12-19

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Favela
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-02-16· cited 77×
• State v. Blackmon
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2008-02-01· cited 55×
• State v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2001-03-09· cited 49×
• State v. McKay
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2001-07-13· cited 49×
• State v. Spotts
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2009-05-01· cited 49×
• State v. Schultz
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2009-07-24· cited 38×
• State v. Grady
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-07-14· cited 34×
• State v. Robison
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2010-01-22· cited 16×
• State v. Bird
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2010-12-17· cited 1×