Sullivan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an agreement to concur in the parole and probation department's recommendation did not preclude the State from making comments intending to support the sentence that the State agreed to recommend
• holding that a promise to recommend a particular sentence does not restrict the State from arguing or presenting facts in favor of its sentence recommendation, although the State must be careful to avoid explicitly or implicitly undermining that recommendation
• reviewing a prosecutor's unobjected-to comments which were contrary to a plea agreement because they may have violated defendant's due process rights
• reviewing a prosecutor’s unobjected-to comments which were contrary to a plea agreement because they may have violated defendant’s due process rights
• reviewing claim for plain error when appellant failed to make a contemporaneous objection
• construing plea agreement according to what a defendant reading it would reasonably understand

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Leonard v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-01-30· cited 52×
• Sullivan v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-09-03· cited 51×
• State v. Peterson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2013-02-08· cited 25×
• GONZALES (MELVIN) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2021-07-29· cited 16×
• CASSINELLI (DOMINIC) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2015-08-27
• Toombs (Adam) Vs. State C/W 80618
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-12-23
• Aldape v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2023-09-28
• Cassinelli v. State
  Court of Appeals of Nevada· 2015-08-27

Cites

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

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• United States v. Benchimol
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-13· cited 201×
• United States v. Casamento
  Second Circuit· 1989-10-11· cited 174×
• United States v. Barney Canada, A/K/A Byron Levon Canada
  First Circuit· 1992-04-02· cited 153×
• United States v. Joseph Corsentino
  Second Circuit· 1982-08-02· cited 82×
• United States v. Lawrence J. Block
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-11-12· cited 78×
• McCullough v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-02-10· cited 65×
• Emmons v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-03-06· cited 62×
• Franklin v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-07-07· cited 49×
• Thomas v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1999-06-07· cited 44×
• United States v. Paul George Stemm
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-06-07· cited 39×
• Van Buskirk v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1986-06-20· cited 36×
• Hanley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1981-03-20· cited 34×
• Buschauer v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-12-20· cited 33×
• United States v. Voccola
  D. Rhode Island· 1985-01-23· cited 25×
• United States v. Williamsburg Check Cashing Corp., Aaron Weiss and Herman Lebowitz
  Second Circuit· 1990-05-31· cited 23×
• Kluttz v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-09-27· cited 22×
• United States v. Nathaniel A. Diamond
  Second Circuit· 1983-04-28· cited 9×
• Wolf v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-07-18· cited 8×
• Bishop v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1978-07-12· cited 6×