State v. Lopez

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that where the defendant believed the substance he was attempting to sell was cocaine, he was guilty of attempting to traffic in a controlled substance, even though it was factually impossible to commit the crime because the substance was, in fact, not cocaine
• “[Wjhen a defendant does everything that is required to commit a crime but is frustrated due to the fact that completion is impossible, he can nevertheless be found guilty of attempt.”
• defendant guilty of attempt to sell cocaine, even though sub stance was not cocaine, because situation is no different from a case “in which a defendant shoots into the intended victim’s bed believing the victim to be there, when in fact the victim is elsewhere”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Chen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-04-11· cited 52×
• State v. Bankert
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-05-02· cited 47×
• State v. Green
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1993-09-21· cited 32×
• Cummings v. State
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2007-08-28· cited 20×
• State v. Villalobos
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1995-08-23· cited 14×
• State v. Curry
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1988-03-31· cited 10×
• State v. Curtis
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1991-12-20· cited 7×
• State v. Curtiss
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2002-11-07· cited 6×
• State v. Villa
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2003-12-02· cited 5×

Cites

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

• United States v. Coplon
  Second Circuit· 1950-12-05· cited 253×
• United States v. Martin Molina Oviedo, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-01-12· cited 146×
• United States v. Coplon
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-28· cited 101×
• People v. Jaffe
  New York Court of Appeals· 1906-04-15· cited 88×
• People v. . Moran
  New York Court of Appeals· 1890-10-07· cited 86×
• United States v. Everett, George
  Third Circuit· 1983-02-15· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Tibbetts
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1893-01-03· cited 69×
• Bottijliso v. Hutchison Fruit Co.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1981-09-22· cited 46×
• United States v. Peter Harold Korn
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-08-15· cited 45×
• United States v. Abel v. Quijada
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-01-04· cited 43×
• United States v. Heng Awkak Roman
  S.D. New York· 1973-03-19· cited 36×
• United States v. Heng Awkak Roman, A/K/A Roman and Lee Koo, A/K/A Lee, A/K/A Lanky Lee
  Second Circuit· 1973-09-26· cited 32×
• State v. Trejo
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1972-02-04· cited 29×
• Booth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1964-12-23· cited 29×
• State v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1902-12-16· cited 28×
• State v. Lopez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1969-11-21· cited 26×
• People v. Rolling
  New York Supreme Court· 1962-11-05· cited 26×
• State v. Guffey
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1953-11-06· cited 25×
• Clark v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1888-04-26· cited 16×
• The People v. Huff
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1930-04-17· cited 15×