State v. Forbes

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “a lesser-included offense of another ... is composed of some, but not all, elements of the greater offense and does not have any element not included in the greater offense”
• An offense is a lesser-included offense if all of the elements of the lesser offense are included in the greater offense, but the greater offense has elements that exceed the lesser
• “An offense is a lesser-included offense of another if it is composed of some, but not all, elements of the greater offense and does not have any element not included in the greater offense.”
• either reckless or negligent conduct could sustain conviction for involuntary manslaughter
• “nolle prosequi... does not... prevent further prosecution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Grega
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-10-07· cited 66×
• In Re Miller
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2009-04-03· cited 42×
• State v. Corliss
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-02-06· cited 27×
• State v. Bolio
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1992-09-18· cited 26×
• State v. Shabazz
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1999-08-06· cited 22×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1991-12-06· cited 19×
• State v. Myers
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-04-22· cited 18×
• State v. Beaudoin
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2008-11-21· cited 17×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-03-09· cited 17×
• State v. Duval
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1991-02-15· cited 17×
• In Re Nash
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-12-11· cited 16×
• State v. Viens
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2009-06-19· cited 15×
• State v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-04-11· cited 15×
• State v. Memoli
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-02-10· cited 13×
• State v. Perry
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-06-16· cited 10×
• State v. Ronald Bean
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2016-07-01· cited 4×
• State v. Aita Gurung
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2025-08-29· cited 4×
• State v. Grace
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-05-21· cited 3×
• State v. Ryan R. Hovey
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2021-08-27· cited 1×
• State v. Seagroves
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-11-19

Cites

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

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• United States v. Jackson
  Supreme Court· 1968-04-08· cited 1,409×
• Illinois v. Vitale
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-19· cited 1,215×
• Ohio v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-02· cited 1,064×
• Lynch v. Overholser
  Supreme Court· 1962-05-21· cited 478×
• United States v. Bernard Jerry, and Edgar Saunders
  Third Circuit· 1973-11-16· cited 215×
• Bassing v. Cady
  Supreme Court· 1908-02-24· cited 101×
• Stowers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-06-21· cited 84×
• State v. De Nistor
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-01-15· cited 64×
• United States v. Tyrone Gaskins
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-09-05· cited 45×
• United States v. Carl L. Combs
  Tenth Circuit· 1980-11-18· cited 39×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-10-14· cited 34×
• John Wesley Riadon, Jr. v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1960-02-01· cited 28×
• In Re Estate of Mahoney
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1966-06-07· cited 25×
• Gilmore, Irvin W. v. Zimmerman, Leroy, Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 1986-06-27· cited 20×
• State v. Parker
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1963-03-06· cited 12×
• Burgess v. Griffin
  W.D. North Carolina· 1984-05-10· cited 7×
• Gilmore v. Zimmerman
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1985-10-10· cited 7×