State v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that felony murder exists where killing is committed within res gestae of felony charged even if intent to commit the felony was formed after the homicide
• affirming felony-murder conviction where death occurred first and felony second and noting that the sequence of events is “not determinative” but that the felony must occur within the res gestae of the crime
• rejecting the defendant’s argument that a murder that precedes the predicate felony cannot be felony murder on the basis that “[i]f a killing is committed within the res gestae of the felony charged, whether the homicide occurred before or after the felony, is not determinative”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Gillis
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2006-04-05· cited 274×
• State v. Ramirez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1976-10-19· cited 80×
• State v. Jacques
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2000-12-08· cited 73×
• State v. Rowell
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1966-11-07· cited 69×
• Cloman v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1978-01-31· cited 68×
• Haskell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-04-21· cited 62×
• State Ex Rel. Anaya v. Scarborough
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1966-01-17· cited 61×
• State v. Neil
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1967-03-29· cited 45×
• State v. Lopez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1969-06-20· cited 40×
• State v. Darwin
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1971-07-06· cited 37×
• State v. Mason
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1968-08-30· cited 36×
• McKay v. Davis
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1982-09-30· cited 35×
• State v. Aguirre
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1972-12-08· cited 29×
• Beall v. Reidy
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1969-07-28· cited 27×
• State v. Garcia
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1969-02-17· cited 20×
• Smith v. State
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1968-09-09· cited 19×
• State v. Smith
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1976-05-18· cited 18×
• State v. Velarde
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1960-07-28· cited 18×
• State v. Beachum
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1970-11-06· cited 14×
• State v. Tipton
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1963-09-23· cited 13×

Cites

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

• People v. . Molineux
  New York Court of Appeals· 1901-10-15· cited 2,413×
• People v. Chessman
  California Supreme Court· 1951-12-18· cited 252×
• State v. Fouquette
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1950-08-10· cited 113×
• People v. Hardy
  California Supreme Court· 1948-11-01· cited 97×
• People v. Spaulding
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1923-10-20· cited 81×
• People v. Latona
  California Supreme Court· 1935-03-26· cited 63×
• Garcia v. State
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1955-01-14· cited 61×
• Keating v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1955-11-01· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Knowlton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-12-26· cited 43×
• State v. Bassett
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1921-01-24· cited 35×
• State v. Mitchell
  Utah Supreme Court· 1955-01-13· cited 34×
• State v. Nelson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1958-01-28· cited 34×
• Griffith v. State
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1953-07-17· cited 30×
• MacAvoy v. State
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1944-06-06· cited 26×
• Garden City Feeder Co. v. Commissioner of Internal Rev.
  Eighth Circuit· 1935-02-14· cited 25×
• State v. Satcher
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1909-11-29· cited 22×
• People v. Brock
  California Court of Appeal· 1937-06-29· cited 21×
• Cerrato v. Miller
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-10-08· cited 19×
• Reynolds v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1956-02-03· cited 16×
• State v. Borrego
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1948-06-23· cited 16×