State v. Cox

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that questions of witness credibility and the weight to give testimony are exclusively for the factfinder
• noting that “control is not a technical term” and “has a commonly understood meaning”
• holding there was sufficient evidence to support conviction for misconduct involving weapons where the State showed the defendant “(1) knew that the guns were in the trunk and (2) [defendant] exercised control over them.”
• holding that jury resolves witness credibility
• noting sufficient evidence of “knowingly” based on a combination of direct and circumstantial evidence
• declining to interpret an “intent to use” mental state into the charge of possession

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Denise R. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2009-05-26· cited 85×
• State of Arizona v. Angelino Paolo Buccheri-Bianca
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2013-10-30· cited 79×
• State of Arizona v. Armando Pena, Jr.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2014-08-11· cited 75×
• Amanda Watts v. Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2016-01-21· cited 54×
• State of Arizona v. Robert Francisco Borquez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2013-07-25· cited 53×
• State v. Bustamante
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2012-03-29· cited 31×
• State v. Slover
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2009-02-09· cited 31×
• State v. Kiles
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2009-08-10· cited 30×
• State v. Gonsalves
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2013-02-28· cited 29×
• State v. Zaragoza
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2009-06-03· cited 26×
• State v. Kinney
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2010-10-28· cited 22×
• State v. Musgrove
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2009-12-01· cited 18×
• State v. Bowsher
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2010-12-08· cited 15×
• State of Arizona v. Jose Raul Juarez-Orci
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2015-01-30· cited 11×
• State v. Burke
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2015-10-08· cited 11×
• DBT Yuma, L.L.C. v. Yuma County Airport Authority
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2015-11-24· cited 11×
• State v. Tarr
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2014-08-05· cited 10×
• State of Arizona v. Kevin Ottar and Ruan Junior Hamilton
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2013-06-26· cited 5×
• State v. Zazueta Garcia
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2023-12-05· cited 2×
• State v. Zaragoza
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2009-02-10· cited 1×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Roque
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2006-08-14· cited 207×
• State v. Gallegos
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1994-03-15· cited 158×
• State v. Stroud
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2005-01-07· cited 99×
• State v. Axley
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-05-10· cited 89×
• State v. Johnson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2006-05-09· cited 78×
• State v. Riggs
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1997-07-15· cited 72×
• State v. Lehr
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2002-01-30· cited 60×
• State v. Clemons
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1974-04-25· cited 45×
• State v. Hughes
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1997-05-06· cited 41×
• State v. Cox
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2007-03-29· cited 30×
• State v. Tyler
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1986-04-08· cited 27×
• State v. Runnels
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1969-06-14· cited 27×
• State v. Norgard
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1968-06-20· cited 26×
• State v. Miramon
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1976-08-11· cited 16×