State v. Hess

How courts have described this case

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

• “Clara put her mental state at issue when she relied upon the defense of justifiable use of force based on battered woman syndrome and offered the testimony of Dr. Lenore Walker in support of that defense.”
• “offered psychological evidence in her homicide defense”
• offered psychological evidence in her homicide defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Stringer
  Montana Supreme Court· 1995-06-14· cited 89×
• Park v. Montana Sixth Judicial District Court
  Montana Supreme Court· 1998-06-25· cited 71×
• Hans v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 1997-07-02· cited 60×
• State v. Hickson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-10-21· cited 42×
• State v. Fina
  Montana Supreme Court· 1995-08-25· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Ostrander
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-03-30· cited 17×
• State v. Henson
  Montana Supreme Court· 2010-06-22· cited 16×
• State v. Walker
  Montana Supreme Court· 2018-12-19· cited 11×
• State v. Claric
  Montana Supreme Court· 1995-05-09· cited 8×
• People v. Comier
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2020-12-30· cited 7×
• People v. Seeley
  New York Supreme Court· 2000-11-22· cited 6×
• State v. A. Smith
  Montana Supreme Court· 2025-12-09· cited 1×
• Hans v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 1997-07-05

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Ronald Allen Smith v. Jack McCormick Warden, Montana State Prison
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-09-07· cited 179×
• State v. Goodwin
  Montana Supreme Court· 1991-06-11· cited 40×
• State v. Briand
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1988-07-11· cited 31×
• McNeill v. Fulcomer
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1990-06-15· cited 5×