Williams v. State

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• concluding that evidence of county's negligence was irrelevant in a trial for DUI causing death because any negligence was a preexisting condition that could not establish that defendant was not the proximate cause of the SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 2 (0
• explaining that NRS 484.3795(l)(f), which applies to a person who has a proNbited level of a controlled substance in his or her blood, does not require impairment and that NRS 484.3795(l)(d
• explaining that NRS 484.3795( l )(f), which applies to a person who has a prohibited level of a controlled substance in his or her blood, does not require impairment and that NRS 484.3795( l )(d
• identifying “traffic safety” as a rational basis for the Nevada per se marijuana statute
• approving the same proximate cause instruction because \an intervening cause must be a superseding cause or the sole cause in order to completely excuse the prior act\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• evaluating the statute which at the time was codified as NRS 484.379

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State of Iowa v. Erik Milton Childs
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-06-30· cited 64×
• Pena v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-04-27· cited 63×
• State Ex Rel. Appleby v. Recht
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-12-11· cited 51×
• Buchanan v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-05-30· cited 42×
• Sheriff v. Burcham
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2008-12-24· cited 27×
• Jessica Williams v. Warden, for the State of Nevada Women's Correctional Facility, Christine Bodo
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-09-07· cited 19×
• Arata v. Faubion
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2007-06-28· cited 13×
• Salazar v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-06-11· cited 10×
• State v. Williams
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-07-22· cited 6×
• Williams v. Warden for the Nevada, Women's Correctional Facility
  D. Nevada· 2007-05-24· cited 1×
• G & G Fremont, LLC v. City of Las Vegas
  D. Nevada· 2016-08-10· cited 1×
• United States v. Reed
  D. Nevada· 2012-07-23· cited 1×
• Williams v. Nevada
  Supreme Court· 2002-11-18
• Byars v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2014-10-16
• in the Matter of R. A. N.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-05-29
• Carmen Mejia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-05-29
• Williams v. Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-09-07
• Amended September 15, 2017 State of Iowa v. Erik Milton Childs
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-06-30
• CORNELLA (MARY LOU) VS. CHURCHILL CO. (STATE)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2016-08-12
• Rudd (Neil) Vs. State C/W 77102
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-01-23