State v. Peterson

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that placing hands around the neck and applying sufficient pressure to cause a person to black out is force that \could have caused ... death or serious bodily injury\
• “ ‘The right to counsel ... [is an] essential aspect[ ] of due process.’ ” (citation omitted)
• \`The right to counsel ... [is an] essential aspect[] of due process.'\ (citation omitted)
• affirming grant of motion to join offenses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Saunders
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-04-03· cited 39×
• State v. Ellifritz
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1992-05-27· cited 30×
• State v. Gibbons
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-09-13· cited 27×
• State v. Germonto
  Utah Supreme Court· 1993-11-15· cited 25×
• State v. McGrath
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-01-06· cited 25×
• State v. Isom
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2015-06-25· cited 23×
• State v. Schweitzer
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1997-07-31· cited 15×
• Snyder v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 13×
• State v. Jolivet
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-01-14· cited 12×
• State v. Bloomfield
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2003-01-09· cited 12×
• State v. Boone
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-10-18· cited 10×
• State in Interest of WBJ
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1998-10-01· cited 7×
• State v. Bush
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2001-01-11· cited 6×
• State v. Ramon
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1987-05-12· cited 5×
• State v. Ekstrom
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2013-11-15· cited 5×
• State v. Labrum
  Utah Supreme Court· 2025-05-01· cited 3×
• State v. McKenna
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-10-30· cited 2×
• State v. Whitefeather
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2026-05-21· cited 1×
• State v. Kirgan
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-12-11
• State v. Kelly
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-11-29

Cites

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

• Ungar v. Sarafite
  Supreme Court· 1964-05-04· cited 1,845×
• Renfro v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1980-01-21· cited 115×
• State v. McCardell
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-08-27· cited 96×
• Coles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-05-25· cited 75×
• State v. Lamm
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-01-16· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Schwartz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-02-01· cited 43×
• State v. Kerekes
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-12-16· cited 40×
• State v. Parker
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1969-06-20· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 32×
• State v. Brewer
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1976-04-27· cited 28×
• Zessman v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1978-01-25· cited 25×
• United States v. Jens Roger Olson
  Eighth Circuit· 1983-01-14· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Mead
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-11· cited 23×
• People v. Oravis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-03-12· cited 19×
• State v. Anderson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1974-12-02· cited 18×
• State v. Collins
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-05-22· cited 16×
• People v. Morrison
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-01-13· cited 15×
• State v. Trams
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1962-03-03· cited 14×
• State in Interest of Besendorfer
  Utah Supreme Court· 1977-08-09· cited 14×
• Manderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-01-07· cited 12×