State v. Sellers

How courts have described this case

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

• in second degree murder case where no body was found, corpus delicti required only “the fact of death, and . . . the responsibility of a criminal agency for the death”
• lab report with defendant’s blood type kept in doctor’s patient file
• “A defendant’s admissions are the most probative and damaging evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ziegler
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-04-12· cited 72×
• State v. Guzman-Cuellar
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-03-30· cited 48×
• State v. Briscoeray
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-04-19· cited 33×
• State v. Ramires
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-01-08· cited 30×
• State v. Garza
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1992-11-20· cited 28×
• State v. Hummel
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-01-03· cited 24×
• State v. Stevenson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-10-18· cited 22×
• State v. Quillin
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-08-25· cited 21×
• State v. Bargas
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-11-08· cited 21×
• State v. Doerflinger
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-09-17· cited 20×
• State v. Savaria
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-07-29· cited 16×
• State v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-04-11· cited 12×
• State v. Garrett
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1995-01-23· cited 11×
• State v. Cummings
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-06-19· cited 11×
• State v. Hutcheson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-08-05· cited 11×
• State Of Washington, V. Bernard Bellerouche
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2025-03-17· cited 4×
• State Of Washington, V. Edward Leroy Carte Jr.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2023-08-21· cited 1×
• State Of Washington, V. Bernard Bellerouche
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2025-03-03
• In re Welfare of M.R.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2022-10-13
• In Re: Nicolaas Devogel, V. Heidi Padilla
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2022-05-16

Cites

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

• Taylor v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1975-01-21· cited 2,446×
• Parker v. Randolph
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-29· cited 590×
• State v. Rupe
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-06-07· cited 299×
• State v. Coe
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-06-07· cited 231×
• Hudson v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 137×
• State v. Dictado
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-08-02· cited 132×
• State v. Kelly
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-06-28· cited 116×
• State v. Adams
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-09-11· cited 107×
• State v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-01-07· cited 100×
• State v. Hilliard
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-12-29· cited 90×
• Johnston v. Ohls
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-07-17· cited 89×
• State v. Koloske
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-01-26· cited 79×
• Michael Waldo Simmons v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-03-10· cited 73×
• State v. Kreck
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-11-20· cited 72×
• State v. Lung
  Washington Supreme Court· 1967-01-26· cited 64×
• State v. Boehme
  Washington Supreme Court· 1967-07-18· cited 61×
• State v. Dixon
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-06-18· cited 40×
• State v. Fellers
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-05-21· cited 37×
• State v. Slider
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-09-24· cited 33×
• State v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1981-05-18· cited 33×