State v. Cole

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that appellant’s “intent to cause fear in [the victim] was carried out by his intentional pointing of a gun at her”
• holding that second-degree assault “forms a proper predicate felony to a felony murder conviction” because “assault is not a property crime, but a crime against the person”
• holding that a verdict of second-degree felony murder does not negate any of the necessary elements required for a verdict of first-degree intentional murder because the lack of intent is not an element of second-degree felony murder
• holding court may look at facts and circumstances of particular case in determining whether underlying felony involves special danger to life
• noting that only crimes involving special danger to human life may serve as the predicate felony
• stating that a defendant’s “intent to cause fear in [the victim] was carried out by his intentional pointing of a gun at her”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

49 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Vang
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-05-07· cited 135×
• State v. Leake
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2005-06-23· cited 100×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-02-24· cited 96×
• Fisher and Utley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-12-17· cited 83×
• State v. Crowsbreast
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2001-07-12· cited 79×
• State v. Bradford
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2000-10-25· cited 78×
• State v. Springer
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 67×
• State v. Hannon
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2005-08-18· cited 43×
• State v. Edrozo
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-05-14· cited 36×
• State v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-04-16· cited 33×
• State v. Stempf
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2001-05-29· cited 24×
• Arredondo v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-08-14· cited 23×
• State v. Engle
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-01-03· cited 21×
• State v. Landa
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-05-02· cited 20×
• State v. Kelbel
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-08-08· cited 20×
• State v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2003-08-07· cited 19×
• State v. Coppage
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2008-06-26· cited 17×
• Stiles v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2003-07-03· cited 15×
• State v. Bjergum
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2009-08-25· cited 13×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1999-06-22· cited 10×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-03-31· cited 305×
• State v. Wahlberg
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-08-08· cited 202×
• State v. Leinweber
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1975-04-04· cited 128×
• State v. Back
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1983-12-09· cited 96×
• Scruggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-05-01· cited 80×
• Bellcourt v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1986-06-27· cited 62×
• State v. Blasus
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-09-15· cited 49×
• State v. Nunn
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-09-26· cited 44×
• State v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1993-07-16· cited 37×
• State v. Montalvo
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-10-01· cited 32×
• State v. Zupetz
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-08-13· cited 30×
• State v. Hale
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1990-04-13· cited 25×
• Gustafson v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1991-11-22· cited 23×
• State v. Branson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-08-07· cited 22×
• State v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-11-13· cited 19×
• State v. Netland
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1995-08-04· cited 14×
• State v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1994-06-17· cited 14×
• State v. Butler
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-08-15· cited 9×