State Supreme Court / Utah

State v. Lafferty

Decided January 11, 1988. Michael D. Zimmerman wrote the opinion for the court.

749 P.2d 1239 · Cited 244 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

State v. Wood · 648 P.2d 71
State v. Williams · 656 P.2d 450
Drope v. Missouri · 420 U.S. 162
State v. Tillman · 750 P.2d 546
State v. Cloud · 722 P.2d 750
People v. Balderas · 711 P.2d 480
State v. Bartholomew · 654 P.2d 1170
State v. McCormick · 397 N.E.2d 276
Johnson v. Zerbst · 304 U.S. 458
State v. Garcia · 663 P.2d 60
State v. Bartholomew · 683 P.2d 1079
State v. Pierre · 572 P.2d 1338
Society of Professional Journalists v. Bullock · 743 P.2d 1166
State v. Valdez · 513 P.2d 422
State v. Poe · 441 P.2d 512
Sheppard v. Maxwell · 384 U.S. 333
Frazier v. Cupp · 394 U.S. 731
Boyd v. United States · 142 U.S. 450
People v. Ramos · 639 P.2d 908
People v. Harris · 623 P.2d 240
Maine v. Superior Court · 68 Cal. 2d 375
State v. Fulton · 742 P.2d 1208
State v. Hackford · 737 P.2d 200
State v. Wells · 603 P.2d 810
State v. Walker · 743 P.2d 191

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State v. Decorso · 1999 UT 57
State v. Bishop · 753 P.2d 439
State v. Rupert · 2014 UT App 279
State v. Bluff · 2002 UT 66
State v. Young · 853 P.2d 327
Lafferty v. State · 2007 UT 73
State v. Carter · 888 P.2d 629
State v. White · 880 P.2d 18
State v. Taylor · 818 P.2d 1030
State v. Davis · 972 P.2d 388
State v. Aase · 762 P.2d 1113
State v. Stapley · 2011 UT App 54
State v. Dibello · 780 P.2d 1221
State v. Lafferty · 2001 UT 19
State v. Parsons · 781 P.2d 1275
State v. Beckering · 2015 UT App 209
State v. Kell · 2002 UT 106
State v. Calliham · 2002 UT 87
State v. Cayer · 814 P.2d 604
State v. Dunn · 850 P.2d 1201
State v. Bell · 770 P.2d 100
State v. Woodland · 945 P.2d 665
State v. Brown · 853 P.2d 851
State v. Robertson · 932 P.2d 1219
State v. Arguelles · 2003 UT 1

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