State v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the crime of attempted depraved mind murder does not exist because of the logical impossibility of intending to commit an unintentional crime
• holding that a conviction for a nonexistent crime constitutes fundamental error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Moore
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1989-08-29· cited 331×
• State v. Garcia
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1992-08-10· cited 233×
• State v. Baca
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1997-11-13· cited 197×
• State v. Arrendondo
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2012-05-07· cited 182×
• State v. Holbron
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1995-10-20· cited 136×
• State v. Herrera
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2001-06-20· cited 110×
• State v. Brown
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1996-12-05· cited 101×
• State v. Maestas
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2006-12-13· cited 96×
• State v. Jernigan
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2005-12-16· cited 91×
• State v. Dowling
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2011-04-12· cited 88×
• State v. Earp
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-10· cited 74×
• State v. Ramirez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2017-12-21· cited 73×
• State v. Lucero
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1998-11-25· cited 55×
• Campos v. Bravo
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2007-04-05· cited 54×
• State v. Reed
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2005-08-17· cited 52×
• State v. Stampley
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1999-05-19· cited 51×
• State v. Dominguez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2005-01-27· cited 50×
• State v. Dunbar
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-10-17· cited 49×
• State v. Landgraf
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1996-01-11· cited 46×
• State v. Williams
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1986-11-26· cited 42×

Cites

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

• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Neal v. State of California
  California Supreme Court· 1960-12-13· cited 950×
• State v. Roy
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1936-07-21· cited 148×
• Merritt v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-06-13· cited 104×
• Vigil v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1977-04-26· cited 90×
• State v. Tanton
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1975-09-30· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-01-28· cited 72×
• State v. Vigil
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1975-03-21· cited 68×
• State v. McCrary
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1984-01-05· cited 66×
• Thacker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-11-16· cited 65×
• State v. Gillette
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1985-04-11· cited 60×
• State v. Crump
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1971-04-26· cited 58×
• State v. Castrillo
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1977-07-08· cited 57×
• State v. Weso
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1973-10-02· cited 57×
• State v. Irvin
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1980-07-28· cited 56×
• State v. Garcia
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1983-06-02· cited 54×
• State v. Ibn Omar-Muhammad
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1985-01-23· cited 46×
• State v. Tijerina
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1973-11-02· cited 41×
• State v. Medina
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1975-04-02· cited 38×
• State v. Foster
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1974-12-31· cited 38×