Spencer 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 three years between charged crime and prior acts “is too long, diminishing the probative value of the evidence”
• evidence of bad acts occurring more than three years before the charged incident had low probative value
• even though remote crimes had low probative value and the Court was “inclined to think this evidence should not have been admitted”, the Court found no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s admission of the evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-04-16· cited 204×
• Stephenson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-01-25· cited 148×
• Mitchell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 118×
• Cutter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-03-17· cited 85×
• Bryant v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-01-29· cited 76×
• Cook v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-09-06· cited 68×
• Clark v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-05-18· cited 41×
• Camm v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-08-10· cited 35×
• Swingley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-12-01· cited 26×
• Greenboam v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-04-30· cited 26×
• Cline v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-04-19· cited 18×
• Kien v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-05-17· cited 16×
• Pope v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-12-28· cited 9×
• Allen v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-04-16· cited 7×
• Vinson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-09-28· cited 7×
• Donald J. Burns v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-09-08· cited 5×
• Tardy v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-05-26· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-08-04· cited 4×
• Green v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-10-31· cited 3×
• Danny Sims v. Andrew Pappas and Melissa Pappas
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-10-13· cited 2×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hicks v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-12-23· cited 191×
• United States v. Leon Hudson and Reginald Smith
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-01-29· cited 78×
• McEwen v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-04-30· cited 77×
• Robinson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-04-03· cited 64×
• Hudson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-18· cited 56×
• Owens v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-12-14· cited 39×
• Isaacs v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-12-29· cited 35×
• Nichols v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-04-27· cited 34×
• Pirnat v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-04-12· cited 26×