State v. Gallegos

How courts have described this case

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

• claim of ineffective assistance of counsel raised for first time on appeal presents question of law
• “The term ‘may’ is generally construed to be permissive and not mandatory and is generally not interpreted to limit options, but, rather, to clearly define some of those options.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Maestas
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2000-02-10· cited 19×
• State v. Silva
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2000-11-02· cited 16×
• State v. Shepherd
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2015-08-13· cited 12×
• State v. Grossi
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2003-06-05· cited 9×
• State v. Valdez
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2008-09-11· cited 8×
• State v. Jimenez
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2007-04-05· cited 5×
• State v. Merworth
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2006-12-07· cited 4×
• Wilson v. Educators Mutual Insurance Ass'n
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2016-02-25· cited 2×
• State v. Amirkhizi
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2004-09-23· cited 1×
• State v. Bowers
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2012-12-13· cited 1×
• Sanchez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2025-05-22· cited 1×
• State v. Uptain
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2023-12-14
• State v. Allred
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2026-01-02

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Payton v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-15· cited 7,618×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• New York v. Belton
  Supreme Court· 1981-09-23· cited 3,483×
• Arizona v. Hicks
  Supreme Court· 1987-03-03· cited 1,525×
• Vale v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,044×
• Morton International, Inc. v. Auditing Division of the Utah State Tax Commission
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-06-24· cited 170×
• Codianna v. Morris
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-03-01· cited 119×
• Parsons v. Barnes
  Utah Supreme Court· 1994-01-11· cited 104×
• United States v. Donald Bennett and Steven R. Keith
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-07-24· cited 73×
• State v. Hygh
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-08-16· cited 58×
• State v. Garrett
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1993-02-26· cited 50×
• United States v. Chester Wysocki
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-04-10· cited 49×
• State v. Harrison
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-01-14· cited 45×
• Kinkella v. Baugh
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-03-07· cited 43×
• Banberry Development Corp. v. South Jordan City
  Utah Supreme Court· 1981-06-03· cited 39×
• State v. Hall
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1997-09-11· cited 37×
• State v. Harris
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-09-27· cited 35×
• State v. Romero
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-02-17· cited 33×
• State v. Snyder
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1993-08-27· cited 30×