State v. Luna

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant could not be held liable as an accomplice because he did not know the principal was going to steal a car until the principal did so
• “A defendant is not guilty as an accomplice unless he has associated with and participated in the venture as something he wished to happen and which he sought by his acts to make succeed.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Roberts
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-01-16· cited 44×
• State v. Williamson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-10-25· cited 28×
• State v. Trout
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-01-25· cited 24×
• State v. Holt
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2004-01-13· cited 23×
• State v. Gallagher
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-07-26· cited 21×
• McKenzy Alfred v. Merrick Garland
  Ninth Circuit· 2023-03-30· cited 17×
• State v. Robertson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-11-24· cited 15×
• State of Washington v. Laurel Lynne Hanley
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2024-11-27· cited 2×
• State Of Washington, V Thomas D. Espey
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2014-11-04
• State v. Zghair
  Washington Supreme Court· 2025-04-17

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Green
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-08-28· cited 1,403×
• State v. J-R Distributors, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1973-07-27· cited 127×
• State v. Chapin
  Washington Supreme Court· 1992-03-19· cited 100×
• In Re the Welfare of Wilson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1979-01-05· cited 70×
• State v. Rotunno
  Washington Supreme Court· 1981-07-30· cited 39×
• J-R Distributors, Inc. v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1974-07-25· cited 37×
• State v. Commodore
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-07-23· cited 27×
• State v. Castro
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1982-07-16· cited 22×
• State v. Pena
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-05-19· cited 17×