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.

• upholding tampering conviction where the defendant held a bag of white, powdery substance out the window of a moving car while being chased by police, thereby destroying the only evidence of a possible underlying crime
• upholding a tampering conviction where the defendant had tossed, and the police were unable to recover, a bag containing an unknown quantity of an unknown white, powdery substance out the window of a car being chased by police
• upholding a tampering conviction where the defendant had tossed, and the police were unable to recover, a bag containing an unknown quantity of an unknown white, powdery substance out the window of a car being chased by police
• “[T]he use of the word ‘attempts’ in the definition of a substantive offense does not necessarily reflect a legislative intent to import the law of attempt, including the ‘purposeful’ culpability requirement, into that offense.”
• indicating \knowingly flees or attempts to elude\ requires knowing culpability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Majors
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-09-03· cited 573×
• State v. Perez
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2003-07-22· cited 50×
• State v. Radosevich
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2018-04-12· cited 50×
• State v. Jackson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2010-07-23· cited 35×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2008-06-03· cited 32×
• State v. Jackson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2010-06-23· cited 27×
• State v. Dixon
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2001-12-20· cited 26×
• State v. N.I.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2002-03-14· cited 20×
• State v. Mendez
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2002-11-14· cited 18×
• People v. Brake
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2003-01-27· cited 15×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-04-06· cited 14×
• In re Juvenile 2003-187
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2004-04-30· cited 11×
• State v. Moscone
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2011-01-13· cited 7×
• Souci v. William C. Smith & Co.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2000-12-07· cited 2×
• State v. Kuhn
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2010-08-06· cited 2×
• State v. NI
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2002-03-14

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Afanador
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1997-07-23· cited 360×
• State v. Harmon
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-10-14· cited 97×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-07-14· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Govens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-10-28· cited 63×
• Lewis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2001-08-14· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Morales
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-01-03· cited 44×
• State v. Patton
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1994-09-06· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Delgado
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-25· cited 33×
• State v. Sharpless
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1998-08-04· cited 31×
• Vigue v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1999-09-03· cited 30×
• State v. Fuqua
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1997-07-03· cited 30×
• State v. Logan
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1998-04-01· cited 27×
• State v. Seymour
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1996-03-26· cited 23×
• M.F. v. M.F.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-08-02· cited 22×
• Frayer v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-06-18· cited 16×
• In Re MF
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-08-02· cited 15×
• State v. Speth
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1999-07-14· cited 13×
• State v. Crescenzi
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1988-03-30· cited 11×