State v. Watson

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he message the prosecutor intended to communicate is irrelevant to our analysis. Instead, we must focus on the actual message communicated to jurors.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Peters
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2024-09-20· cited 77×
• State v. Hilyard
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2022-08-19· cited 35×
• State v. Liles
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2021-07-16· cited 29×
• State v. Guebara
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2024-03-08· cited 29×
• State of Maine v. Jomo White
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2022-11-08· cited 18×
• State v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2024-02-16· cited 17×
• State v. Ford
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2025-06-27
• State v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2026-01-30
• State v. Horton
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2026-04-24

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• State v. Ward
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2011-07-29· cited 1,316×
• State v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2018-04-13· cited 294×
• State v. Tosh
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2004-06-25· cited 217×
• State v. Holt
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-10-31· cited 141×
• State v. Peppers
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2012-05-04· cited 136×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-06-27· cited 106×
• State v. Ho K. Duong
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2011-08-12· cited 76×
• State v. Ross
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2019-07-19· cited 64×
• State v. Cosby
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2011-09-09· cited 44×
• State v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2020-07-24· cited 41×
• State v. Fritz
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1997-01-24· cited 15×
• State v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2020-08-21· cited 13×
• RENALDO K. LUCAS v. UNITED STATES
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2014-10-30· cited 8×