State v. Collins

How courts have described this case

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

• “ The fault or lack of fault of [victim] is a circumstance to be considered along with all the other evidence to determine whether the defendant’s conduct was or was not the direct cause of [victim’s] death.’ ”
• “ proximate cause or legal cause . . . is that cause which in natural continuous sequence, unbroken by an intervening cause, produces the injury and without which the injury would not have occurred, the injury being the natural and probable consequence or result of the defendant’s act’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Scott
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2007-12-07· cited 31×
• State v. Brammer
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-02-20· cited 27×
• State v. Bale
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2008-05-16· cited 9×
• State v. Payne
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2025-01-31

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Gordon
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-05-08· cited 57×
• State v. Chastain
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1998-05-29· cited 45×
• State v. Bell
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2003-12-12· cited 25×
• City of Wichita v. Hull
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1986-09-11· cited 20×
• State v. Betts
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1974-03-02· cited 19×
• State v. Creamer
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2000-01-21· cited 15×
• State v. Woodman
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1987-04-16· cited 13×