State v. Lovelace

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he two words [must and should] can be used interchangeably in criminal instructions. Both convey a sense of duty and obligation.”
• instruction telling jurors \you must\ find the defendant guilty was erroneous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Smith-Parker
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-12-24· cited 182×
• State v. Ragland
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-11-21· cited 121×
• State v. Lashley
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-06-10· cited 80×
• State v. McDaniel & Owens
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1980-06-14· cited 70×
• State v. Prouse
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1989-01-20· cited 68×
• State v. Weigel
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1980-06-14· cited 67×
• State v. Peckham
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-05-27· cited 54×
• – State v. Patterson –
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2020-01-10· cited 41×
• State v. Wardner
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2006-12-18· cited 32×
• State v. Maxwell
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1984-12-14· cited 32×
• State v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1986-12-05· cited 21×
• People v. Ramsey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-07-10· cited 18×
• People v. Waller
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2016-08-11· cited 13×
• State v. Laughlin
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1982-10-22· cited 12×
• State v. Price
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1997-11-26· cited 8×
• State v. Hayes
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2020-03-06· cited 8×
• State v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1982-06-17· cited 2×
• State v. Behler
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1981-10-23
• State v. Montgomery
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2026-04-24

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Wilkins
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1974-06-15· cited 104×
• State v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-12-11· cited 57×
• State v. Chiles
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1979-06-09· cited 53×
• State v. Coe
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1977-11-22· cited 48×
• State v. Trujillo
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1979-02-24· cited 39×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1973-07-14· cited 38×
• State v. Stuart and Jones
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-02-25· cited 31×
• State v. Shultz
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-12-09· cited 29×
• State v. Phipps
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-05-06· cited 26×
• State v. Goodwin
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1977-12-10· cited 19×
• State v. Yates
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-11-06· cited 10×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-07-15· cited 10×