State v. Herrera

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a mental disorder serves as a defense to a murder only if it prevents a person from understanding that he is killing a human being
• “[N]o court has ever ruled that punishing someone who fails to meet the M’Naghten test constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.’ [citation omitted.] This continues to hold true today.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Grant
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2007-01-25· cited 320×
• Gardner v. Galetka
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-06-19· cited 110×
• State v. Houston
  Utah Supreme Court· 2015-03-13· cited 94×
• State v. Lafferty
  Utah Supreme Court· 2001-02-23· cited 89×
• Gallivan v. Walker
  Utah Supreme Court· 2002-08-26· cited 70×
• State v. Martinez
  Utah Supreme Court· 2002-08-09· cited 53×
• State v. Morrison
  Utah Supreme Court· 2001-08-21· cited 45×
• State v. Angilau
  Utah Supreme Court· 2011-01-07· cited 29×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-08-31· cited 18×
• State v. PRION
  Utah Supreme Court· 2012-03-20· cited 18×
• State v. Ansari
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2004-09-23· cited 15×
• Utah Public Employees Ass'n v. State
  Utah Supreme Court· 2006-02-16· cited 14×
• State v. Kehoe
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2011-07-13· cited 14×
• Salt Lake Cnty v. State of Utah
  Utah Supreme Court· 2020-05-18· cited 11×
• Pleasant Grove City v. Orvis
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2007-03-01· cited 10×
• In re K.T.B.
  Utah Supreme Court· 2020-07-21· cited 10×
• State v. Nicholls
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2017-03-30· cited 9×
• Gillmor v. Summit County
  Utah Supreme Court· 2010-12-28· cited 8×
• In Re Arnovick
  Utah Supreme Court· 2002-07-26· cited 5×
• C.B.S. v. J.S.D.
  Utah Supreme Court· 2016-12-06· cited 4×

Cites

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

• United States v. Salerno
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-26· cited 5,104×
• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Snyder v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 2,822×
• Robinson v. California
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 2,369×
• Palko v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1937-12-06· cited 2,059×
• Leland v. Oregon
  Supreme Court· 1952-10-13· cited 1,010×
• United States Ex Rel. Smith v. Baldi
  Supreme Court· 1953-02-09· cited 253×
• Malan v. Lewis
  Utah Supreme Court· 1984-05-01· cited 160×
• Westbrook v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1995-06-29· cited 133×
• State v. Copeland
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-12-06· cited 115×
• Society of Separationists, Inc. v. Whitehead
  Utah Supreme Court· 1993-12-10· cited 102×
• Bott v. DeLand
  Utah Supreme Court· 1996-07-12· cited 82×
• State v. Mohi
  Utah Supreme Court· 1995-06-15· cited 76×
• State v. Herrera
  Utah Supreme Court· 1995-04-21· cited 69×
• Greenwood v. City of North Salt Lake
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-09-10· cited 68×
• Wickham v. Fisher
  Utah Supreme Court· 1981-04-22· cited 64×
• State v. Hankins
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1989-06-23· cited 63×
• State v. Edmon
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1981-01-05· cited 61×
• Price v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 47×