State v. Mercer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding McCullum applies to excusable homicide cases
• second degree murder conviction affirmed; instructions did not place the burden on defendant to prove self-defense, and there was no error by not instructing jury that the State had the burden in this pre-McCullum trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Tillman
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-12-22· cited 213×
• State v. Acosta
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-05-24· cited 168×
• State v. Norlin
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-03-05· cited 34×
• In Re the Personal Restraint of Mercer
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-08-27· cited 25×
• State v. Fondren
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-06-11· cited 19×
• State v. Hieb
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-12-24· cited 18×
• State v. Toennis
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-08-10· cited 18×
• State v. Takacs
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1983-10-24· cited 11×
• State v. Sweet
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-01-09· cited 10×
• State v. Hardy
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-05-07· cited 7×
• State v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1983-08-22· cited 5×
• In re Skjonsby
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-05-07· cited 3×
• State v. Mercer
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1982-12-06