State v. Jackson

How courts have described this case

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

• when considering a motion for a new trial the trial justice applies independent judgment concerning the credibility of witnesses and weight of the evidence
• “Because statutory definitions are not given, the common law established by our cases has defined the term[ ] ‘assault’. ...”
• “[I]n future cases we shall apply the McLaughlin rule under which we shall presume that an unloaded but operable gun possesses a per se present ability to carry the offer [to do corporal injury to another] into effect.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• trial justice’s improper comment cured by contemporaneous curative instruction
• trial justice's improper comment cured by contemporaneous curative instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Grayhurst
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-06-23· cited 83×
• State v. Briggs
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-12-19· cited 38×
• State v. Boillard
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-01-31· cited 36×
• State v. Rieger
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-01-05· cited 30×
• State v. Arroyo
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-03-26· cited 29×
• State v. Bolduc
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-05-19· cited 29×
• State v. Lassiter
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-12-18· cited 27×
• State v. Caba
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-12-21· cited 24×
• State v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-01-28· cited 22×
• State v. Hak
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-01-28· cited 22×
• State v. Abdullah
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-04-06· cited 19×
• United States v. Weems
  First Circuit· 2018-07-18· cited 19×
• United States v. Sabetta
  D. Rhode Island· 2016-10-24· cited 18×
• State v. Dyer
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-01-17· cited 17×
• State v. D'ALESSIO
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-04-01· cited 16×
• State v. Clifton
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-06-01· cited 13×
• State v. Gardiner
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-04-25· cited 9×
• Lopes v. Keisler
  First Circuit· 2007-10-26· cited 7×
• State v. Vega
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-02-14· cited 6×
• State v. Tillery
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2007-05-16· cited 4×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McLaughlin v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-29· cited 192×
• State v. Banach
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-10-27· cited 100×
• State v. Tempest
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1995-01-11· cited 80×
• State v. Marini
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-03-08· cited 79×
• State v. Toole
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-04-28· cited 77×
• State v. Henshaw
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1989-04-25· cited 69×
• State v. Dame
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1989-06-20· cited 63×
• State v. Snow
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1996-02-05· cited 54×
• State v. Estrada
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1988-02-25· cited 46×
• State v. Doctor
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-02-19· cited 40×
• State v. Pratt
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-05-13· cited 39×
• State v. Figueroa
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1996-04-15· cited 37×
• State v. Kryla
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1999-12-06· cited 36×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1999-11-24· cited 33×
• State v. Jeremiah
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1988-08-18· cited 29×
• State v. Brash
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1986-07-28· cited 26×
• State v. Robertson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1999-10-20· cited 22×
• State v. Lamoureux
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1990-05-04· cited 20×
• State v. Andrade
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1995-04-24· cited 20×
• State v. Wiley
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1989-12-20· cited 10×