State v. Pine

How courts have described this case

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

• describing murder as a common law crime and year and a day rule as a judicial creation
• examining “importance of the right concerned and its effect on defendant”
• “We think this standard [proof beyond a reasonable doubt] is a sufficient safeguard for the criminal defendant. We do not find, therefore, that our abrogation of the year-and-a-day rule requires us to replace it with some other time period within which death must occur”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Mattatall
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1992-02-21· cited 87×
• State v. Rogers
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-05-24· cited 60×
• United States v. Jackson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1987-07-09· cited 41×
• United States v. Michael Clifton Chase
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-03-04· cited 35×
• State v. Nordstrom
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1987-07-06· cited 34×
• State v. Gillespie
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2008-12-03· cited 29×
• State v. Ruesga
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-11-16· cited 18×
• State v. Gabehart
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1992-06-30· cited 14×
• Key v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2002-03-01· cited 9×
• State v. Iovino
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1989-03-07· cited 5×
• State v. Jason Roberts
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2024-06-07· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Casanova
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-04-07· cited 2×
• State v. Gillespie, P1/99-1304a (r.I.super. 2006)
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2006-06-30

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Marks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-01· cited 2,149×
• Bouie v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,779×
• Becker v. Beaudoin
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1970-02-09· cited 102×
• People v. Stevenson
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-12-23· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Ladd
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-12-01· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-29· cited 37×
• State v. Vargas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-09-16· cited 35×
• State v. Young
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1978-07-20· cited 34×
• Henry v. John W. Eshelman & Sons
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1965-04-13· cited 31×
• People v. Snipe
  California Court of Appeal· 1972-05-18· cited 31×
• Rampone v. Wanskuck Buildings, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1967-03-27· cited 25×
• Elliott v. Mills
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1959-02-25· cited 24×
• State v. Minster
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-01-24· cited 21×
• Benevides v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1960-02-10· cited 14×
• Traugott v. Petit
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1979-07-27· cited 10×