Dix v. Stewart

How courts have described this case

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

• “progress of a criminal trial may become stalled by evidentiary conflicts over matters of tangential relevance, thereby impeding the expeditious administration of justice”
• “a defendant in a criminal case, where justification is an issue, [must be permitted] to introduce evidence of the victim’s prior specific acts of violence, of which the defendant had knowledge”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).