State v. Souza

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it was not coercive for the trial justice to give the jurors a time limit for them to try to reach a unanimous verdict, especially when viewing the instructions as a whole and when considering that the jury already had deliberated for two days
• observing that when a defendant challenges a trial justice’s Allen charge, the Court must consider the particular facts and circumstances of the case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Oliveira
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-08-05· cited 58×
• State v. Dionne
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-03-12· cited 54×
• Allen v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-03-14· cited 46×
• State v. Pignolet
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-09-01· cited 46×
• Kurczy v. St. Joseph Veterans Ass'n, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-04-15· cited 46×
• State v. Thornton
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-06-27· cited 41×
• State v. Hernandez
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-05-04· cited 39×
• State v. Dearmas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-02-13· cited 33×
• State v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-05-14· cited 33×
• State v. Werner
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-06-05· cited 29×
• State v. Brouillard
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2000-02-04· cited 23×
• State v. Sciarra
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-08-03· cited 17×
• State v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-11-22· cited 12×
• State v. Bulhoes
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-06-25· cited 6×
• People v. Mehmedi
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1986-03-24· cited 6×
• State v. Cochrane
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-04-13· cited 4×
• Anthony Souza v. Donald Ellerthorpe
  First Circuit· 1983-08-03· cited 3×
• State v. Gregory Hampton-Boyd
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2021-06-28
• State v. Larry Threadgill
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2025-07-18

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• Schmerber v. California
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 6,067×
• Roviaro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-03-25· cited 3,599×
• Snyder v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 2,822×
• Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1920-03-01· cited 2,373×
• Nardone v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1939-12-11· cited 1,927×
• McCray v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1967-04-24· cited 1,521×
• Johnson v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1972-05-22· cited 1,080×
• People v. McShann
  California Supreme Court· 1958-10-01· cited 151×
• Loy Lavator Baker v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-07-30· cited 133×
• Bishop v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1939-10-23· cited 103×
• State v. Patriarca
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1973-07-20· cited 96×
• State v. Thomas
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1959-07-20· cited 92×
• State v. Cline
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1979-08-31· cited 84×
• State v. Randall
  Montana Supreme Court· 1960-07-08· cited 80×
• Narberto Angelo Portomene v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1955-04-27· cited 75×