State v. Ortega

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that cleaning up and disposing of evidence were efforts to evade detection and supported a finding of premeditation
• holding that premeditation can be shown by examining evidence about the nature of the killing, such as the number of wounds inflicted and the infliction of wounds to vital areas
• holding that evidence of prior threats may establish motive and premeditation
• concluding a prosecutor’s questioning was permissible because it “could have aided [the defendant]’s case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Silvernail
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-05-31· cited 194×
• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2017-05-24· cited 89×
• State v. Munt
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-05-31· cited 51×
• Loving v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2017-03-22· cited 32×
• State of Iowa v. Mark Gabriel Martin
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2016-04-15· cited 30×
• State of Minnesota v. Anthony James Cox
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2016-08-24· cited 19×
• State of Minnesota v. Marcus Michael Barshaw
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2016-05-25· cited 16×
• State v. Vasquez
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2018-06-06· cited 11×
• Danny Ortega, Jr. v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-11-19· cited 8×
• State of Minnesota v. Quintin Deshun Dye
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2015-11-30· cited 5×
• State v. Salyers
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2014-01-21· cited 5×
• State of Minnesota v. Alie Christine Theodore Dorn
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2016-02-16· cited 3×
• State v. Bowen
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2018-04-02· cited 3×
• State v. Gundy
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2018-05-29· cited 1×
• Amended June 21, 2016 State of Iowa v. Mark Gabriel Martin
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2016-04-15
• State of Minnesota v. Elsa E. Segura
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2024-01-31
• State of Minnesota v. David Alan Williams
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2024-02-05
• State of Minnesota v. Matthew Starnes
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2024-05-06
• State of Minnesota v. Nicholas James Firkus
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2026-02-25

Cites

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

• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Rhode Island v. Innis
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,571×
• Davis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-24· cited 2,777×
• Oregon v. Bradshaw
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-23· cited 1,351×
• State v. Webb
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-05-26· cited 349×
• State v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-03-31· cited 305×
• Bernhardt v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-08-05· cited 280×
• State v. Andersen
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2010-06-30· cited 190×
• State v. Scales
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1994-06-30· cited 174×
• State v. Munson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1999-03-18· cited 127×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-07-15· cited 95×
• State v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-03-06· cited 89×
• State v. Yang
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2009-10-29· cited 85×
• State v. Pilcher
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1991-07-26· cited 82×
• State v. Palmer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-09-28· cited 71×
• State v. Holliday
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-03-06· cited 66×
• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-08-24· cited 65×
• State v. McArthur
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-04-12· cited 59×
• State v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-01-15· cited 58×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-04-20· cited 57×