Thomas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that no prejudice resulted from failure to instruct jury that knowledge of nature of drug at issue was element of the offense
• failure to instruct on knowledge of nature of drug not reversible since not genuinely disputed at trial
• failure to properly instruct on essential element of the offense is error but will only require reversal where prejudice is shown
• failure to properly instruct on essential element of the offense is error but will only require reversal where prejudice is shown
• failure to instruct on knowledge of nature of drug not reversible since not genuinely disputed at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Adams
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1980-05-07· cited 3,804×
• State v. Delva
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-02-21· cited 308×
• Evans v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-05-28· cited 112×
• Kimoktoak v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-09-01· cited 81×
• State v. Guest
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-09-01· cited 80×
• Adams v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2011-09-16· cited 79×
• Bigley v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2009-05-22· cited 73×
• Christie v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-06-09· cited 68×
• Potts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-02-11· cited 60×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-06-30· cited 55×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1999-04-09· cited 49×
• State v. Dunn
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-07-11· cited 49×
• Amidon v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-06-02· cited 47×
• Thomas v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-06-13· cited 45×
• Dorador v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1978-01-11· cited 42×
• Kott v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1984-01-27· cited 42×
• Marrone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-11-05· cited 37×
• State v. Knight
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-12-18· cited 33×
• State v. Nieblas-Duarte
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-08-21· cited 30×
• Gonzales v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1976-07-09· cited 27×

Cites

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

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Roviaro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-03-25· cited 3,599×
• Moore v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-10-10· cited 1,226×
• United States v. Carll
  Supreme Court· 1882-04-24· cited 453×
• The People v. Mills
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-05-29· cited 209×
• United States v. Burnis Bryant, United States of America v. Henry Church Bryant
  Sixth Circuit· 1972-06-14· cited 90×
• Speidel v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-10-21· cited 81×
• Arthur Eugene Byrd v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1965-01-14· cited 76×
• Davis v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-07-28· cited 70×
• Taggard v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-08-11· cited 63×
• John Edward Merrill v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1964-11-24· cited 60×
• Judd v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-03-11· cited 59×
• People v. Turner
  California Court of Appeal· 1971-12-20· cited 59×
• Leon Jackson v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1962-12-20· cited 53×
• State v. McKeough
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1973-02-28· cited 53×
• Burford v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-11-02· cited 50×
• Torres v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-03-15· cited 48×
• Thomas v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1964-04-06· cited 44×
• United States v. William Edward Beard, United States of America v. Harold Garrison
  Third Circuit· 1969-08-20· cited 40×
• United States v. Harry J. Rybicki
  Sixth Circuit· 1968-11-22· cited 39×