State v. Dubois

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that pretrial motions to exclude evidence should ordinarily be denied \when the trial court can conceive of a set of circumstances that would make the evidence admissible\
• noting that pretrial motions to exclude evidence should ordinarily be denied “when the trial court can conceive of a set of circumstances that would make the evidence admissible”
• requiring trial court to rule “without equivocation” in order for a motion in limine to preserve an issue for appeal
• proper course is to defer ruling until trial if “court can conceive of a set of circumstances that would make the evidence admissible”
• “[t]he motion should be used, if used at all, as a rifle and not as a shotgun . . . .”
• discretionary denial of a motion in limine is inappropriate for an interlocutory appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Koveos
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1999-02-05· cited 32×
• Kysar v. BP Am. Prod. Co.
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2012-01-19· cited 27×
• State v. Beckley
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1991-10-11· cited 15×
• State v. Bolaski
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2014-04-25· cited 14×
• State v. Blair
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-10-12· cited 10×
• State v. Thayer
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2010-08-20· cited 9×
• State v. Premo
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-08-18· cited 2×
• Coghlan v. Concord Gen. Mut. Ins. Co.
  Vermont Superior Court· 2005-07-20
• DiLello v. Union Tools, Inc.
  Vermont Superior Court· 2004-09-15
• In re Judicial Review of C.H.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-03-31
• shaffer v. nkhs
  Vermont Superior Court· 2024-06-05
• Kramer v. Town of Derby
  Vermont Superior Court· 2024-09-23
• Hillview Heights, LLC Subdivision Appeal - Decision on Motions
  Vermont Superior Court· 2024-11-21

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• American Home Assurance Company v. Sunshine Supermarket, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1985-02-01· cited 115×
• In Re Pyramid Co. of Burlington
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1982-06-08· cited 66×
• Paulino Izaguirre Rojas v. Robert Richardson, Kenneth McGee and M and R Cattle Company, a Partnership
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-08-29· cited 52×
• Lewis v. Buena Vista Mutual Insurance Association
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1971-01-19· cited 39×
• Schichtl v. Slack
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-10-12· cited 28×
• State v. McCann
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-12-24· cited 14×
• State v. City of Winooski
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1986-12-08· cited 6×