State v. Brooks

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the \rule of lenity serves as a guide for interpreting criminal statutes where the legislature failed to articulate its intent unambiguously\ (quotation omitted)
• stating that the \rule of lenity serves as a guide for interpreting criminal statutes where the legislature failed to articulate its intent unambiguously\ (quotation omitted)
• distinguishing Melendez-Diaz because documents at issue, authenticating various business records, served as foundation for admission of substantive evidence and certificates themselves were of minimal evidentiary value
• defendant convicted of capital murder involving solicitation, capital murder in the course of kidnapping, first degree murder as an accomplice, and conspiracy to commit capital murder
• language in an indictment alleging that a defendant “acted in concert with” another ordinarily charges the defendant both as a principal and as an accomplice to the other in the crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. McNeil
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2013-05-23· cited 45×
• State v. Noucas
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2013-07-16· cited 33×
• State v. Tabaldi
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2013-10-01· cited 21×
• ANTHONY RICHARDSON and JAMES WALKER v. UNITED STATES
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2015-06-11· cited 15×
• State v. Lathrop
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2012-12-21· cited 13×
• State v. Owen Labrie
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2018-11-06· cited 10×
• State v. McLeod
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2013-05-14· cited 10×
• People v. Ortega
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2016-10-20· cited 9×
• State v. Dorrance
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2013-07-16· cited 7×
• State v. Casanova
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2013-02-13· cited 6×
• State of New Hampshire v. Bryan Maga
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2014-05-16· cited 5×
• State v. Brian Watson
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2018-05-01· cited 5×
• State v. Lukas
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2013-03-13· cited 3×
• State of New Hampshire v. Michael Addison (Capital Murder – Proportionality Review)
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2015-04-30
• State v. Owen Labrie
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2019-06-07
• State v. Huckins
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2025-02-12

Cites

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

• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Davis v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-19· cited 4,179×
• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
• State v. Green
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-08-28· cited 1,403×
• Michigan v. Bryant
  Supreme Court· 2011-02-28· cited 1,277×
• Bullcoming v. New Mexico
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-23· cited 1,225×
• United States v. William Weiland
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-08-24· cited 380×
• State v. Salamon
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2008-07-01· cited 243×
• United States v. Yeley-Davis
  Tenth Circuit· 2011-01-20· cited 113×
• United States v. Hemphill
  D.C. Circuit· 2008-02-08· cited 63×
• Mountain Valley Mall Associates v. Municipality of Conway
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2000-02-03· cited 41×
• State v. Ayer
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2006-12-07· cited 40×
• State v. Lopez
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2007-11-09· cited 37×
• State v. Goodhue
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2003-09-05· cited 35×
• State v. Lamy
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2009-04-08· cited 35×
• State v. Wamala
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2009-04-17· cited 30×
• State v. Dodds
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2009-08-21· cited 30×
• State v. Seymour
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1996-03-19· cited 29×
• State v. O'MALEY
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2007-09-05· cited 26×