Mendez 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 if “particular instances be allowed to be shown it would lead to the mischief of raising any number of collateral issues, the trial of which might be almost interminable, and otherwise objectionable, as diverting the mind of the jury from the main issue”
• “The trend ... of the more recent decisions appears to be in the direction of allowing to go before the jury evidence of particular acts of violence and turbulence by the deceased towards third persons.... [T]he trae guide should be a reasonable dis-cretion____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Adjutant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-03-14· cited 78×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-05-05· cited 66×
• State v. Griffin
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1965-10-08· cited 45×
• State v. Taylor
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1991-09-17· cited 37×
• State v. Duncan
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1971-06-14· cited 19×
• State v. Birdsall
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1977-05-17· cited 15×
• State v. Eddington
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1963-10-23· cited 9×
• State v. Canedo
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1977-03-01· cited 8×
• Hartley v. Oidtman
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1966-11-15· cited 8×
• Murphy v. State
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1928-03-05· cited 5×
• Lepker v. State
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1932-05-16· cited 5×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Alexander v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1884-01-07· cited 57×
• Brownell v. People
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1878-06-04· cited 45×
• Mortimore v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1916-12-23· cited 34×
• People v. Farrell
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1904-07-07· cited 34×
• People v. Harris
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1893-03-10· cited 31×
• State v. Ardoin
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1923-04-14· cited 25×
• Campbell v. Territory of Arizona
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1912-06-25· cited 24×
• Bowlus v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1891-11-03· cited 15×
• People v. Dowd
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1901-06-17· cited 8×