State v. Donaldson

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding joinder is proper when defendant provides evidence of one crime while committing another
• \There was no objection made at trial to the now complained-of comments. This historically meant there is no basis for finding reversible error.\
• State improperly bolstered testimony of a detective by stating he received no additional pay for testifying as he did and if he was making testimony up he could ruin his career and other trials
• detective testified defendant responded appropriately and did not appear intoxicated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Sprague
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-12-04· cited 302×
• State v. Smith-Parker
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-12-24· cited 182×
• State v. McReynolds
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2009-03-13· cited 101×
• State v. Gilliland
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2012-05-11· cited 73×
• Haddock v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2006-11-09· cited 59×
• State v. Hurd
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2013-12-27· cited 56×
• United States v. Madkins
  Tenth Circuit· 2017-08-08· cited 35×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2025-02-14· cited 22×
• State v. Morton
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2008-01-18· cited 18×
• State v. Scott
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2008-02-22· cited 14×
• State v. Coburn
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2008-02-01· cited 14×
• State v. Donaldson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-09-11· cited 13×
• State v. Brosseit
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2018-08-17· cited 11×
• State v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2020-07-10· cited 7×
• State v. Ross
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2025-06-13

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• State v. Pabst
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2000-02-11· cited 246×
• State v. Tosh
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2004-06-25· cited 217×
• State v. Elnicki
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2005-02-18· cited 169×
• State v. Wakefield
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1999-04-16· cited 70×
• State v. Anthony
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-06-13· cited 65×
• State v. Donesay
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1998-05-29· cited 62×
• State v. Valdez
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1999-03-05· cited 62×
• State v. James
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2003-11-26· cited 59×
• State v. Plaskett
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2001-07-27· cited 59×
• State v. Smolin
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-12-11· cited 53×
• State v. White
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2003-04-25· cited 51×
• State v. Ly
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2004-03-19· cited 50×
• State v. Woods
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1992-01-17· cited 48×
• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-06-02· cited 46×
• State v. Douglas
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2002-07-12· cited 43×
• State v. Flynn
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2002-09-27· cited 41×
• State v. Makthepharak
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2003-10-31· cited 39×
• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2005-02-18· cited 38×
• State v. Green
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-04-05· cited 37×