State v. Carrera

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the Utah Supreme Court considers a trial court’s use of the word “victim” particularly serious because it can give the jury an impression of partiality
• “In this case, the statements using the term ‘victim’ were numerous, came from several sources . . . and unsubtly referred to [the complaining witness] as ‘victim.’ . . . We have little trouble concluding that these references were problematic and objectionable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Tuinman
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2023-08-03· cited 13×
• State v. Barnes
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2023-12-14· cited 11×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2025-03-06· cited 10×
• State v. Broadwater
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2024-12-19· cited 7×
• State v. Francis
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2025-07-10· cited 5×
• State v. Hunt
  Utah Supreme Court· 2025-11-13· cited 5×
• State v. Nelson
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2024-05-16· cited 2×
• State v. Bunton
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2026-04-16· cited 2×
• State v. Carrera
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2022-08-18· cited 1×
• State v. K. Sandberg
  Montana Supreme Court· 2026-03-10
• State v. Perez
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2026-06-11
• State v. Talbert
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2026-06-25

Cites

40 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• David Brown v. Timothy Budz
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-02-16· cited 774×
• United States v. Martinez-Salazar
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 746×
• State v. Holgate
  Utah Supreme Court· 2000-09-19· cited 405×
• Marshall Dwayne Hughes v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-07-09· cited 231×
• State v. Litherland
  Utah Supreme Court· 2000-09-29· cited 207×
• State v. Scott
  Utah Supreme Court· 2020-03-09· cited 138×
• State v. Ray
  Utah Supreme Court· 2020-03-09· cited 117×
• Olsen v. Eagle Mountain City
  Utah Supreme Court· 2011-02-18· cited 110×
• State v. Saunders
  Utah Supreme Court· 1999-06-11· cited 96×
• State v. Bond
  Utah Supreme Court· 2015-09-30· cited 82×
• State v. Popp
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2019-10-31· cited 68×
• State v. Standiford
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-12-30· cited 61×
• State v. Griffin
  Utah Supreme Court· 2016-07-27· cited 43×
• State v. Beckering
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2015-03-05· cited 37×
• State v. Whytock
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2020-07-16· cited 36×
• State v. King
  Utah Supreme Court· 2008-08-05· cited 35×
• State v. Berriel
  Utah Supreme Court· 2013-04-05· cited 33×
• State v. Jok
  Utah Supreme Court· 2021-07-22· cited 32×
• State v. Vallejo
  Utah Supreme Court· 2019-07-29· cited 23×