State v. James

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing the rule adopted for jury unanimity in People v. Sullivan, 173 N.Y. 122, 65 N.E. 989 (N.Y.1903)
• trial jury does not have to unanimously agree upon the particular statutory theory of the crime charged
• \By requiring semantic uniformity [in jury verdicts] we encourage overcomplicated instructions and hung juries in cases in which the jurors actually [and unanimously] agree upon the defendant's guilt.\
• “By requiring semantic uniformity [in jury verdicts] we encourage overcomplicated instructions and hung juries in cases in which the jurors actually [and unanimously] agree upon the defendant’s guilt.”
• “[w]e adopt the Sullivan rule for cases in which a jury is instructed disjunctively on alternative methods by which a defendant may commit a single offense”
• when \only one criminal act [is] alleged and only one incident [is] involved\, the jurors must agree that the defendant committed the act, but they need not agree on which clause of the statute this act violated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Landrian v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-10-08· cited 344×
• State v. Salazar
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1997-09-03· cited 228×
• State v. Tillman
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-12-22· cited 213×
• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-03-15· cited 151×
• State v. Boots
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1989-09-26· cited 111×
• Covington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-07-26· cited 96×
• State v. Klinge
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2000-02-04· cited 86×
• State v. Hummel
  Utah Supreme Court· 2017-04-04· cited 78×
• State v. Jones
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2001-08-30· cited 70×
• Potts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-02-11· cited 60×
• People v. Travis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-06-21· cited 59×
• Pruett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1987-10-27· cited 47×
• Rice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-11-05· cited 43×
• People v. Davis
  California Court of Appeal· 1992-07-16· cited 41×
• State v. Russell
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-02-09· cited 38×
• Konrad v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-11-10· cited 33×
• Ward v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1988-06-17· cited 33×
• Khan v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2012-06-15· cited 31×
• Vigue v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1999-09-03· cited 30×
• Michael v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-12-23· cited 23×

Cites

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

• Bell v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-09· cited 1,300×
• Johnson v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1972-05-22· cited 1,080×
• Apodaca v. Oregon
  Supreme Court· 1972-05-22· cited 853×
• United States v. Franklin Delano Gipson
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-06-06· cited 381×
• State v. Arndt
  Washington Supreme Court· 1976-08-05· cited 245×
• People v. . Sullivan
  New York Court of Appeals· 1903-01-06· cited 204×
• United States v. Uco Oil Company, and Donald Simeon
  Ninth Circuit· 1976-12-13· cited 137×
• Gray v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-01-16· cited 134×
• Wells v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1978-01-10· cited 131×
• McCarty v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-17· cited 102×
• United States v. Anthony Dilapi and Benjamin Ladmer
  Second Circuit· 1981-06-09· cited 99×
• State v. Duncan
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-11-25· cited 84×
• State v. Encinas
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-06-02· cited 78×
• State v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-07-23· cited 72×
• Christie v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-06-09· cited 68×
• People v. Nye
  California Supreme Court· 1965-07-12· cited 55×
• The United States of America v. James Dean Barton
  Tenth Circuit· 1984-04-04· cited 53×
• Aaron Ferer & Sons Co. v. Atlas Scrap Iron & Metal Co.
  Eighth Circuit· 1977-06-30· cited 44×
• Hawkins v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1981-08-13· cited 34×
• State v. Hazelett
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1972-01-06· cited 33×