State v. Pruett

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court did not err in admitting, over hearsay objec- tions, pathologist’s cause-of-death opinion based on autopsy reports, photographs, and tissue sections produced by another physician
• state of mind to convict for reckless assault does not rise to level of intentional or knowing
• Nebraska Supreme Court noted that trial court's instructing jury using statutory definition of \recklessly\ was proper
• all jury instructions must be read together, and if, taken as whole, they correctly state law, are not misleading, and adequately cover issues supported by pleadings and evidence, there is no prejudicial error necessitating reversal
• unintentional crime cannot serve as predicate for use of weapon to commit felony
• discussing State v. Ring, supra

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Gales
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 2005-03-18· cited 200×
• State v. Iromuanya
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2006-08-11· cited 131×
• State v. Davlin
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2002-03-01· cited 82×
• State v. Duncan
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2003-03-07· cited 75×
• State v. Hudson
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2004-04-10· cited 75×
• State v. Sepulveda
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2009-11-20· cited 58×
• State v. Bao
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2002-03-15· cited 45×
• State v. Putz
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2003-06-06· cited 43×
• State v. Wagner
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2006-03-10· cited 41×
• State v. Aguilar
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2004-07-16· cited 39×
• State v. Hembertt
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2005-05-20· cited 37×
• State v. Hagens
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2025-10-10· cited 31×
• State v. Tucker
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2009-11-20· cited 27×
• State v. Morton
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 2021-03-23· cited 22×
• State v. Thurman
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2007-05-04· cited 16×
• State v. Allen
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2023-07-14· cited 15×
• State v. Kruger
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2025-11-21· cited 15×
• State v. Ash
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2013-10-18· cited 14×
• State v. Aguilar
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2002-11-08· cited 14×
• State v. Tucker
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 2009-03-31· cited 13×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Sanchez
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1999-07-16· cited 131×
• State v. Ring
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1989-11-09· cited 111×
• State v. Quintana
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2001-01-12· cited 100×
• State v. Harrold
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1999-05-07· cited 70×
• Bergner v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-12-12· cited 53×
• State v. Canbaz
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2000-05-26· cited 50×
• State v. Hamik
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2001-11-02· cited 49×
• State v. Taylor
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2001-09-28· cited 39×
• State v. Henderson
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1983-08-10· cited 32×
• Gibson v. City of Lincoln
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1985-11-22· cited 23×
• State v. Lang
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1976-11-10· cited 15×
• State v. Drew
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1984-03-02· cited 13×
• State, Department of Roads v. Whitlock
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2001-09-28· cited 11×
• State v. Kistenmacher
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1989-02-24· cited 10×
• Kucki v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1985-10-17· cited 8×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1993-08-13· cited 7×
• State v. Hemmer
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1995-05-23· cited 6×
• State v. Pruett
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2000-02-11· cited 6×