State v. Gonzalez

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “expert testimony as to the modus operandi of a drug organization may, depending upon the facts of the case, be admitted as evidence”
• approving use of modus operandi evidence as circumstantial evidence of knowledge
• “Expert testimony that drug traffickers do not entrust large quantities of drugs to unknowing transporters is not drug courier profile evidence, but rather, is modus operandi evidence.”
• “Expert testimony that drug traffickers do not entrust large quantities of drugs to unknowing transporters is not drug courier profile evidence, but rather, is modus operandi evidence.”
• “Unlike drug courier profile evidence, modus operandi evidence is . . . properly admitted to assist the jury in understanding the modus operandi of a drug trafficking organization.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Washington v. Bryan Jack Ross Crow
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2019-04-09· cited 97×
• State v. Garcia-Quintana
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2014-03-25· cited 13×
• State of Arizona v. Cooperman
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2012-08-14· cited 5×
• State v. Escalante
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2017-06-11· cited 2×
• State v. Urrea
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2017-05-30· cited 2×
• State v. Todd
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2018-04-09· cited 2×
• State v. Martinez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2012-06-12
• State of Arizona v. William Maurice Brown
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2026-05-08

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Reid v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 1,109×
• State v. Henderson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2005-07-08· cited 1,009×
• State v. Moody
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2004-08-09· cited 424×
• United States v. Mariano Murillo
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-07-06· cited 166×
• Fuenning v. SUPER. CT. IN AND FOR CTY. OF MARICOPA
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 145×
• United States v. Cordoba
  Ninth Circuit· 1997-01-07· cited 136×
• Fuenning v. Superior Court
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 92×
• United States v. Lionel Mendez
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-02-23· cited 89×
• United States v. Teresa Maria Campos
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-06-28· cited 46×
• State v. Lee
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1998-05-28· cited 37×
• United States v. Sepulveda-Barraza
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-03-03· cited 36×
• United States v. Nicholas Vasquez
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-05-23· cited 30×
• State v. Walker
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1995-03-16· cited 21×
• State v. Cifuentes
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1991-10-10· cited 17×
• State v. Salazar
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1976-09-30· cited 16×