State v. Crenshaw

How courts have described this case

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

• \If the accused knew his act was wrong — either legally or morally — then he cannot be excused for his crime by the insanity defense.\
• trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding the defendant competent despite his counsel's reservations about his competency
• trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting lay persons testimony that the defendant “ ‘seemed very normal’ ” on the day he decapitated his wife and police officer testimony about the defendant’s sanity soon after the offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Russell
  Washington Supreme Court· 1994-10-13· cited 831×
• State v. Crenshaw
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-02-17· cited 163×
• State v. Davis
  Washington Supreme Court· 2012-09-20· cited 124×
• State v. Ellis
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-10-01· cited 86×
• Rubio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-09-12· cited 58×
• Ivery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-04-19· cited 46×
• State v. Cameron
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-12-01· cited 45×
• State v. Lewis
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2007-08-28· cited 40×
• State v. Heger
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1982-12-01· cited 27×
• State v. Thamert
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-08-25· cited 23×
• State v. Hicks
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-08-05· cited 17×
• State v. Stoudamire
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1981-08-03· cited 12×
• Carr v. Deking
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-12-15· cited 9×
• In re the Detention of Bedker
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-07-31· cited 8×
• State v. Swain
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1998-09-24· cited 5×
• In Re Detention of Bedker
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-09-11
• Rubio, John Allen
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-09-12

Cites

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

• State v. White
  Washington Supreme Court· 1962-09-25· cited 141×
• Hudson v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 137×
• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1968-10-29· cited 134×
• People v. Schmidt
  New York Court of Appeals· 1915-11-23· cited 111×
• State v. Adams
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-09-11· cited 107×
• People v. Wood
  New York Court of Appeals· 1962-12-06· cited 68×
• State v. McDonald
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-11-17· cited 65×
• State v. Tyler
  Washington Supreme Court· 1970-03-05· cited 60×
• State v. Griffith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1958-08-07· cited 57×
• State v. Andrews
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1960-12-10· cited 48×
• United States v. Smith
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1954-12-30· cited 48×
• State v. Upton
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1976-09-07· cited 39×
• State v. Corley
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1972-04-07· cited 36×
• McElroy v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1921-12-15· cited 34×
• State v. Worland
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1978-06-30· cited 32×
• State v. Reece
  Washington Supreme Court· 1971-07-15· cited 29×
• People v. Perez
  California Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 28×
• State v. Odell
  Washington Supreme Court· 1951-02-13· cited 28×
• State v. Quinlivan
  Washington Supreme Court· 1972-08-10· cited 27×
• Blumenthal v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1937-03-09· cited 26×