Williams v. State

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 is entitled to jury instruction on defense theory of the case so long as some evidence supports the theory
• \Evidence from the defendant alone need not be supported by other independent evidence.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Byford v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-02-28· cited 246×
• Nevius v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 70×
• United States v. John Sennett White and John Michael Wilson
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-10-09· cited 48×
• Rosas v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2006-12-21· cited 34×
• Moore v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1989-06-30· cited 29×
• Peck v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-08-24· cited 27×
• Wegner v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-12-05· cited 23×
• Roberts v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1986-04-24· cited 15×
• Boykins v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-02-04· cited 13×
• Walker v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-07-01· cited 10×
• NEWSON, JR. (VERNON) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-04-30· cited 5×
• Bostic v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1988-08-25· cited 5×
• GUIDRY (RONNEKA) v. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-06-02· cited 2×
• CHABOT (WACEY) v. STATE (CRIMINAL)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2026-04-09· cited 1×
• U.S. v. White
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-09-04
• Davis v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2014-03-27
• COLLINS (LESEAN) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2017-11-22
• MANNING (JAMES) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2016-09-15
• NEWSON (VERNON) VS. STATE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-10-10
• Martin (Weslie) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2021-11-30

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lisby v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1966-05-18· cited 87×
• Fox v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1957-10-18· cited 36×
• State v. Smart
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1959-11-09· cited 33×
• Barger v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1965-11-09· cited 24×
• People v. Gajda
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1967-09-25· cited 21×
• Jackson v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1968-03-18· cited 16×
• Riddle v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1980-07-21· cited 8×
• Allen v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1982-06-29· cited 4×