State v. Mendez

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no rational basis to charge reckless manslaughter where the defendant fired a machine gun into a crowd because he knew it was practically certain that his conduct would cause death or serious injury
• jury’s conviction of purposeful or knowing murder to the exclusion of aggravated manslaughter was necessarily a rejection of reckless manslaughter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Brent
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-07-27· cited 105×
• Turner v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-10-01· cited 83×
• Lilly v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-11-28· cited 72×
• Geschwendt v. Ryan
  Third Circuit· 1992-06-18· cited 49×
• Rosas v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2006-12-21· cited 34×
• State v. Copling
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1999-12-16· cited 26×
• State v. Gaines
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2005-05-26· cited 16×
• State v. Tucker
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1993-06-11· cited 9×
• State v. Mendez
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1992-01-31

Cites

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

• Schad v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 1,454×
• People v. Sedeno
  California Supreme Court· 1974-02-04· cited 776×
• State v. Yarbough
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1985-10-07· cited 697×
• State v. Merrill
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1978-12-01· cited 321×
• State v. Gerald
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-10-25· cited 237×
• State v. Rose
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-09-22· cited 222×
• State v. Crisantos (Arriagas)
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-05-06· cited 205×
• State v. Abreau
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-05-26· cited 198×
• State v. Grunow
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-03-12· cited 168×
• Ex Parte Jordan
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1986-03-07· cited 91×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1967-07-05· cited 74×
• United States ex rel. Matthews v. Johnson
  Third Circuit· 1974-08-15· cited 66×
• Strenten Vujosevic v. John R. Rafferty, Superintendent of Rahway State Prison, and W. Carey Edwards, Attorney General of New Jersey
  Third Circuit· 1988-04-18· cited 64×
• State v. Curtis
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1984-07-18· cited 64×
• James Dale Cooper v. Jerry Campbell, Superintendent, Arkansas Department of Correction, Cummins Unit, and Attorney General, State of Arkansas
  Eighth Circuit· 1979-04-25· cited 44×
• People v. Richette
  New York Court of Appeals· 1973-10-17· cited 35×
• State v. White
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 25×
• Ridgely v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1987-07-24· cited 24×
• State v. Nowlin
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-07-30· cited 21×
• State v. Williams
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1986-10-06· cited 20×