State v. Helms

How courts have described this case

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

• complaint not defective for charging rape; rape not a more general crime than indecent liberties with child
• indecent liberties with a child is not a more specific offense than rape even if it applied to a specific victim because rape included an element not present in the indecent liberties statute
• general/specific rule inapplicable because inconsistent with reasonable legislative intent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-06-27· cited 106×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1992-04-10· cited 61×
• State v. Hudgins
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-04-03· cited 48×
• Merryfield v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-02-27· cited 35×
• State v. Arellano
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1997-07-28· cited 24×
• State v. Stallings
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1990-05-25· cited 24×
• Matson v. Kansas Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-04-03· cited 23×
• State v. Wilcox
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1989-05-26· cited 20×
• State v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-03-08· cited 13×
• State v. Cott
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2009-05-01· cited 9×
• State v. Euler
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2021-08-06· cited 8×
• State v. Hill
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1991-12-13· cited 3×
• State v. Montgomery
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1990-07-27· cited 2×
• State v. Euler
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2021-12-10
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2025-11-26

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Herbert A. Ellenbogen
  Second Circuit· 1966-09-15· cited 88×
• State v. Haislip
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-06-21· cited 74×
• State v. Clements
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-03-27· cited 61×
• State v. Massey
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-12-11· cited 47×
• State v. Coberly
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-03-26· cited 42×
• State v. Folkerts
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1981-06-10· cited 22×
• Seltmann v. Board of County Commissioners
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1973-07-14· cited 18×
• State v. Bagby
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1982-04-03· cited 18×
• State v. Hollis
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-01-16· cited 14×
• State v. Wilson
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1986-08-21· cited 12×
• State v. Heck
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1983-04-07· cited 8×
• State v. Ekis
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1978-11-09· cited 6×