State v. Wilkins

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “defendant has the burden of establishing the affirmative defense of entrapment only by a preponderance of the evidence”
• entrapment is affirmative defense, which defendant must prove by a preponderance of the evidence
• defendant bears burden of proving entrapment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Zaccaro
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-03-09· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Weiskerger
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-01-30· cited 45×
• State v. Messier
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1985-05-14· cited 42×
• State v. Hicks
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-08-14· cited 42×
• State v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-06-01· cited 19×
• State v. George
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1991-12-13· cited 15×
• State v. Lee
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2005-08-19· cited 14×
• State v. Merritt
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-04-08· cited 7×
• State v. Vanderlas
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1984-09-07· cited 7×
• State v. Hayes
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2000-03-01· cited 2×
• In re Laura Hernandez
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2021-09-03· cited 2×
• State v. Jessica L. Morrill
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2025-04-18· cited 2×
• State v. Lovejoy
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-06-17

Cites

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

• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• United States v. Russell
  Supreme Court· 1973-04-24· cited 2,012×
• Sorrells v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1932-12-19· cited 1,793×
• Sherman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-05-19· cited 1,587×
• Jack Marrin Williamson and Morris Lee Lowrey v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1963-03-05· cited 193×
• Earl D. Greene v. United States of America, John Becker v. United States of America, Mike A. Thomas v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1972-02-03· cited 191×
• People v. Turner
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1973-09-18· cited 183×
• People v. Benford
  California Supreme Court· 1959-11-06· cited 153×
• Grossman v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-07-21· cited 89×
• State v. Mullen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-03-27· cited 85×
• Raymond Smith v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1964-02-20· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-09-27· cited 55×
• People v. Hochberg
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1978-04-13· cited 38×
• State v. Nakamura
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1982-07-01· cited 33×
• State v. Kelsey
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1977-07-25· cited 18×
• State v. Dragon
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1972-06-06· cited 15×
• State v. Hoffman
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1980-04-21· cited 14×
• Dravo v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1980-10-10· cited 14×
• Jack Marrin Williamson v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1965-03-22· cited 12×
• Craver v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-14· cited 12×