State v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the “absurdity” of allowing two criminal convictions if the injured victim lives but allowing only one conviction if the victim dies
• applying Dunn and noting defendant had failed to distinguish between the lesser included offense doctrine and the felony-murder merger doctrine each of which is “a separate legal theory” existing in a “distinct legal pigeonhole”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Lowrance
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2013-11-08· cited 106×
• State v. Marsh
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2004-12-17· cited 96×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2003-01-24· cited 78×
• State v. Ninci
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1997-04-18· cited 77×
• State v. Martinez
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2010-07-30· cited 70×
• State v. Smallwood
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1998-03-06· cited 62×
• State v. Butler
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-06-13· cited 49×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-10-28· cited 44×
• State v. McCovey
  Utah Supreme Court· 1990-12-18· cited 42×
• State v. Schlein
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1993-06-16· cited 40×
• State v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1993-07-09· cited 36×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-10-27· cited 36×
• State v. Davidson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1998-03-06· cited 34×
• Todd v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1996-06-21· cited 32×
• Gonzales v. McKune
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-04-18· cited 30×
• State v. Gaines
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-10-25· cited 28×
• State v. Holt
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-05-31· cited 27×
• State v. Swafford
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1995-06-13· cited 27×
• State v. Blackmore
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1991-12-06· cited 26×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-04-15· cited 26×