State v. Simmons

How courts have described this case

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

• malice may be inferred beyond a reasonable doubt where defendant deliberately set fire
• there must be evidence upon which the jury could have found defendant acted recklessly, negligently, or out of naive ignorance before the giving of the erroneous instruction constitutes reversible error
• malicious mischief not lesser included offense of first degree arson

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Sherman
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-11-10· cited 59×
• State v. Ratliff
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-12-24· cited 39×
• State v. Clark
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1995-07-10· cited 34×
• State v. Hoffman
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1983-04-27· cited 23×
• State v. Woolworth
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1982-01-13· cited 12×
• State v. Partosa
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-07-29· cited 10×
• State v. Flowers
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1982-02-03· cited 8×
• State v. Funkhouser
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1981-12-08· cited 7×
• State v. Hobart
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1983-03-04· cited 6×
• City of Bellevue v. Kinsman
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1983-04-25· cited 1×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• State v. Workman
  Washington Supreme Court· 1978-09-07· cited 578×
• State v. Shipp
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-05-15· cited 146×
• State v. Bishop
  Washington Supreme Court· 1978-06-15· cited 61×
• State v. Rogers
  Washington Supreme Court· 1974-03-21· cited 48×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1979-06-27· cited 7×