State v. Cooley

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that, if the prosecutor were required to “ ‘prove directly what was in the defendant’s mind,’ ” the defendant could “ ‘defeat practically any conviction’ ” (citation omitted)
• admission of testimony of three-year-old witness over defendant's objection was error when court failed to examine witness to determine competency
• “Specific intent may be inferred from acts. It may be shown like many other facts from the surrounding circumstances.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Bishop
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-02-03· cited 250×
• State v. Petree
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-02-04· cited 148×
• State v. Fulton
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-05-28· cited 73×
• State v. Eagle
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-05-06· cited 42×
• State v. Webb
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-07-21· cited 42×
• State v. Hall
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1997-09-11· cited 37×
• State v. Murphy
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-10-31· cited 32×
• State v. Johnson
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-03-31· cited 32×
• State v. Stricklan
  Utah Supreme Court· 2020-10-15· cited 21×
• State v. Davis
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-08-07· cited 13×
• State v. Whitaker
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2016-05-19· cited 12×
• State v. Garcia-Mejia
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2017-07-28· cited 9×
• State v. Hansen
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1993-08-04· cited 5×
• State v. Talbot
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-05-24· cited 1×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• State v. Ferry
  Utah Supreme Court· 1954-10-26· cited 18×
• State v. Peterson
  Utah Supreme Court· 1969-04-18· cited 13×
• State v. Sanchez
  Utah Supreme Court· 1961-04-19· cited 11×