State v. Pierce

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the predicate felony of “kidnapping and the murder were separate and individual crimes”
• kidnapping and murder were separate acts where victim was taken for service against her will, transported to a remote location, and killed
• kidnapping and murder were separate acts where victim was taken for service against her will, transported to a remote location, and killed
• “[T]he requisite malice aforethought can be inferred from the commission or attempted commission of the felony.... [F]elony murder simply contains no mens rea requirement.” (quotation omitted)
• noting kidnapping preceded and was independent of the subsequent killing
• noting kidnapping preceded and was independent of the subsequent killing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Duffy
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1998-05-20· cited 205×
• State v. Ortega
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-09-03· cited 155×
• State v. Campos
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1996-05-30· cited 143×
• Chapman v. LeMaster
  Tenth Circuit· 2002-09-04· cited 34×
• State v. Scher
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1994-12-23· cited 31×
• State v. Mann
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2000-10-19· cited 26×
• State v. Vernon
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1993-11-16· cited 21×
• Rios v. Danuser MacH. Co., Inc.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1990-05-15· cited 19×
• State v. Romero
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2023-07-06· cited 13×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Smith v. Phillips
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-22· cited 3,512×
• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• Estes v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,725×
• Remmer v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1954-03-08· cited 1,718×
• McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 1,407×
• Tanner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 915×
• Parker v. Gladden
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-12· cited 671×
• United States v. Nell
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-02-13· cited 221×
• United States v. Paul C. Perkins
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-12-19· cited 212×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,534 United States of America v. John Dioguardi and Louis Ostrer
  Second Circuit· 1974-01-04· cited 135×
• Louis Charles King v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1978-05-05· cited 104×
• Samuel D. Wright v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1984-01-24· cited 88×
• Head v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-12-14· cited 82×
• United States v. Louis A. Duzac, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-08-01· cited 76×
• State v. Harrison
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1977-05-19· cited 76×
• State v. Poh
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1984-01-31· cited 64×
• James B. Shillcutt v. John R. Gagnon
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-08-27· cited 62×
• Lloyd Eugene Brofford v. Ronald C. Marshall
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-01-08· cited 49×
• State v. McFall
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1960-08-04· cited 48×