State v. McDonald

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that comments characterizing the defendant’s emotions as “feigned” and body language as “over-exaggerated” impermissibly commented indirectly upon the credibility of another witness (quotation omitted)
• affirming jury instruction where “the trial court properly explained the law of self-defense and used the exact language of the statute”
• declining to construe the term “forcible sex offense” to mean any aggravated felonious sexual assault because to do so would render the term meaningless and require the court to insert language the legislature did not see fit to include
• “The legislature could have permitted the use of deadly force against any ‘aggravated felonious sexual assault’ by using that term in the self-defense statute. Indeed, the legislature has used the specific phrase ‘aggravated felonious sexual assault’ in other statutes.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Noucas
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2013-07-16· cited 33×
• State v. Saunders
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2012-11-09· cited 26×
• State of New Hampshire v. William Ramsey
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2014-01-28· cited 19×
• State v. Furgal
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2012-12-21· cited 14×
• State v. Fischer
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2013-11-26· cited 14×
• State of New Hampshire v. Adam Wells
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2014-02-13· cited 12×
• Brown v. Concord Group Insurance
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2012-06-08· cited 9×
• State v. McGurk
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2012-05-11· cited 8×
• New Hampshire Department of Transportation v. Franchi
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2012-07-18· cited 4×
• In re D.B.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2012-08-14· cited 2×
• State of New Hampshire v. Richard Soulia
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2021-05-05
• State of New Hampshire v. Richard Racette
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2022-04-26
• State v. Warren
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2025-05-16

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-03-02· cited 1,738×
• State v. Lambert
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2001-12-17· cited 325×
• State v. Stojetz
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1999-02-17· cited 151×
• Caudill v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-06-12· cited 98×
• People v. Powell
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1986-03-31· cited 54×
• Tovar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2005-04-20· cited 49×
• State v. Etienne
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2011-12-21· cited 47×
• State v. Littlefield
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2005-06-16· cited 46×
• State v. Lopez
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2007-11-09· cited 37×
• Kenison v. Dubois
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2005-07-18· cited 37×
• State v. Lamy
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2009-04-08· cited 35×
• State v. Pseudae
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2006-09-27· cited 22×
• Appeal of Union Telephone Co.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2010-05-20· cited 17×
• State v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1985-06-17· cited 16×
• State v. Reynolds
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1992-11-04· cited 16×
• State v. Warren
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2002-04-15· cited 16×
• State v. White
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2007-03-30· cited 15×
• State v. Hoffer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1986-03-19· cited 15×
• New Hampshire Resident Ltd. Partners v. New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2011-06-22· cited 14×