State v. Ortiz

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting claim-of-right defense to robbery as ‘‘not only lacking in sound reason and logic, but . . . utterly incompatible with and [having] no place in an ordered and orderly society such as ours, which eschews self-help through violence’’
• possession of a dangerous knife did not merge with armed robbery because defendant was found in possession of the knife when he was arrested sometime after the robbery
• inapplicable to violent debt collection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Tufunga
  California Supreme Court· 1999-11-15· cited 201×
• State v. Mirault
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1983-03-17· cited 91×
• State v. Mejia
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1995-07-12· cited 86×
• State v. Best
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1976-04-07· cited 68×
• People v. Reid
  New York Court of Appeals· 1987-05-05· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Dombrauskas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-18· cited 38×
• State v. Brighter
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1980-03-21· cited 36×
• State v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1973-12-03· cited 26×
• State v. Winston
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-07-15· cited 26×
• Jupiter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-12-11· cited 22×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-07-17· cited 21×
• State v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1975-06-14· cited 20×
• State v. McMillen
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1996-10-03· cited 20×
• State v. Schaefer
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1990-01-11· cited 20×
• People v. Hodges
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1985-12-30· cited 19×
• State v. Self
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-01-27· cited 17×
• State v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2000-12-13· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1975-08-04· cited 17×
• State v. Lewis
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1978-10-12· cited 16×
• State v. Hobbs
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2003-02-06· cited 15×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Hock
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1969-10-20· cited 194×
• State v. Mayberry
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1968-07-23· cited 133×
• State v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1972-07-24· cited 104×
• People v. Butler
  California Supreme Court· 1967-01-09· cited 101×
• Moyers v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1938-06-25· cited 42×
• John W. Richardson v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1968-06-19· cited 29×
• People v. Uselding
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1969-03-20· cited 27×
• State v. PIERCE
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1971-11-06· cited 20×
• State v. Leibowitz
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1956-06-25· cited 17×