State v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• holding \an out of court statement is not hearsay if it is offered for the limited purpose of explaining why a government investigation was undertaken\
• holding police officers' testimony regarding complaints they had received prior to establishing surveillance of defendant's residence was nonhearsay because it was admitted to explain why officers began their surveillance
• holding the police officers' testimony about complaints they received from declarants in the neighborhood, prior to setting up surveillance, was admissible for the nonhearsay purpose of explaining why the officers began surveillance of the defendant's apartment
• explaining “an out of court statement is not hearsay if it is offered for the limited purpose of explaining why a government investigation was undertaken” and “these statements were not entered for their truth but rather to explain why the officers began their surveillance”
• burden on challenger to prove statute violates Equal Protection Clause
• hearsay statements to explain investigation are not admitted for truth

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Caprood v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-01-04· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Rosario
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-12-30· cited 68×
• State v. Price
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-04-17· cited 63×
• State v. Hicks
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-04-27· cited 60×
• State v. Curtis
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2004-01-05· cited 54×
• State v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-01-06· cited 47×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-01-24· cited 41×
• STALK v. Rice
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-10-05· cited 32×
• State v. Vick
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2009-06-25· cited 30×
• State v. Lindsey
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2011-08-10· cited 29×
• State v. Hornsby
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-04-28· cited 25×
• Johnson v. Collins Entertainment Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-05-28· cited 22×
• State v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1995-03-27· cited 21×
• State v. Barroso
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1995-06-12· cited 16×
• Rhodes v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-03-25· cited 15×
• State v. King
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2015-04-22· cited 15×
• State v. White
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2002-03-04· cited 14×
• State v. Weaver
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-09-07· cited 14×
• State v. Kirby
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-12-23· cited 12×
• Abbeville County School District v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-04-22· cited 12×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 2,187×
• State v. Sims
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-09-24· cited 97×
• State v. Crenshaw
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1980-04-09· cited 40×
• Brown v. County of Horry
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-04-13· cited 22×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1980-07-21· cited 22×
• Blandon v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-05-16· cited 19×
• Davis v. County of Greenville
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-04-04· cited 18×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1988-04-25· cited 11×
• Mitchell v. Owens
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1991-02-04· cited 6×
• Rainey v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1992-01-27· cited 6×
• State v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1990-10-08· cited 6×
• State v. Price
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1986-10-08· cited 5×