Ruiz v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding where obvious discrepancies exist in a witness’ trial testimony or even trial testimony and earlier statements, “that fact in itself does not result in concluding as a matter of law that the witness is wholly incredible”
• “The jury, as the judge of credibility, had the right to believe the testimony of Garcia and to disbelieve the unanimous testimony of witnesses to the contrary.”
• “Even though there be glaring discrepancies in the testimony of a witness at trial, or between his trial testimony and his previous statements, that fact in itself does not result in concluding as a matter of law that the witness is wholly incredible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ruiz
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1984-04-24· cited 27×
• Frank J. Ruiz v. Elmer O. Cady, Superintendent, Wisconsin State Reformatory, Respondent
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-11-07· cited 14×
• Frank J. Ruiz v. Elmer O. Cady, Superintendent, Wisconsin State Reformatory
  Seventh Circuit· 1983-07-20· cited 13×
• State v. Lunz
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1979-01-09· cited 12×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2002-04-09· cited 10×
• MATTER OF STATE EX REL. LYNCH v. County Ct.
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1978-03-07· cited 8×
• State v. Stawicki
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1979-11-15· cited 7×
• Ruiz v. Cady
  E.D. Wisconsin· 1978-07-18· cited 4×
• State v. Dixon
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2004-02-17
• State v. Jimothy A. Jenkins
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2014-07-11

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Mooney v. Holohan
  Supreme Court· 1935-01-21· cited 1,837×
• Pyle v. Kansas
  Supreme Court· 1942-12-07· cited 558×
• United States v. James Vincent Keogh
  Second Circuit· 1968-02-02· cited 327×
• Peters v. State
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1975-09-30· cited 67×
• State v. John
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1960-06-07· cited 28×
• United States v. Linds Agurs, United States of America v. Linda v. Agurs, (Two Cases)
  D.C. Circuit· 1975-04-03· cited 14×
• Sykes v. State
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 3×