State v. Hill

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the bullet trajectory and wounds contradicted the defendant’s claim that the victim was standing and facing him at the time of the shooting
• holding that a party may impeach a witness with an unspecified felony conviction
• stating that felony convictions are probative of a witness’s credibility, and the fact that a witness is a convicted felon has impeachment value
• stating that “[appellate courts] will not reverse a district court’s ruling on the impeachment of a witness by prior conviction absent a clear abuse of discretion” (quotation omitted)
• explaining that, for prosecutorial-misconduct claims, a modified substantial-rights test is applied
• allowing impeachment with an unspecified felony as long as the felony is admissible under rule 609(a)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ortega
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-04-18· cited 86×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-09-19· cited 76×
• State v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-02-27· cited 62×
• State of Minnesota v. Antoine Rumel Little
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-08-13· cited 57×
• Hooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-10-30· cited 55×
• State v. Hohenwald
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-07-11· cited 49×
• Gulbertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-03-05· cited 43×
• Allen v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2013-03-21· cited 38×
• State of Minnesota v. Joshua Lee Myhre
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2016-02-17· cited 36×
• John Wallace McGinn v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2015-11-06· cited 32×
• State of Minnesota v. David Muniz Bustos
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-04-01· cited 30×
• State v. Zornes
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-05-31· cited 30×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2012-12-24· cited 28×
• State v. Morrow
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-08-07· cited 18×
• State v. Fraga
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2017-06-28· cited 15×
• Luke Reed v. State of Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-05-10· cited 12×
• State v. Irby
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2012-09-04· cited 10×
• State v. Griffin
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2014-05-12· cited 5×
• State of Minnesota v. John Kevin Melina
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2024-05-13
• State of Minnesota v. Nicholas James Firkus
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2026-02-25

Cites

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

• People v. Hayes
  New York Court of Appeals· 2002-02-07· cited 643×
• State v. Griller
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-07-30· cited 451×
• State v. Ramey
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-09-14· cited 347×
• United States v. Runyan
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-04-18· cited 192×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1978-08-18· cited 180×
• People v. Cox
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2001-04-19· cited 176×
• United States v. Alfred Joseph Samango
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-12-13· cited 143×
• State v. Brouillette
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1979-10-26· cited 133×
• State v. Brunson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1993-06-15· cited 128×
• State v. Bias
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-02-12· cited 110×
• State v. Geyer
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-07-24· cited 103×
• Fulton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-08· cited 99×
• State v. Gassler
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1993-09-03· cited 94×
• State v. Means
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-02-27· cited 93×
• State v. Cooper
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1997-03-27· cited 90×
• State v. Shepherd
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1971-06-10· cited 74×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-07-19· cited 74×
• State v. Williams
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1966-07-18· cited 71×
• State v. Reed
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-08-23· cited 71×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-07-31· cited 68×