State v. Eaton

How courts have described this case

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

• “Evidence . . . is inadmissible if its sole relevancy is to establish bad character . . . on the part of the accused.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Bashor
  Montana Supreme Court· 1980-07-17· cited 54×
• State v. Anderson
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1979-12-31· cited 49×
• State v. Lewisohn
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1977-11-08· cited 47×
• State v. Northup
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1974-04-05· cited 41×
• State v. Heald
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-11-09· cited 40×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1974-06-13· cited 37×
• State v. Young
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 33×
• State v. Littlefield
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-07-11· cited 23×
• Eaton v. Sontag
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-06-01· cited 23×
• State v. Ifill
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1975-12-17· cited 22×
• State v. Gagne
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1976-07-21· cited 21×
• State v. Wells
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1980-12-01· cited 19×
• State v. Wallace
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-07-01· cited 19×
• State v. Pinnette
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1975-06-16· cited 15×
• State v. Bourgeois
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1994-04-04· cited 7×
• State of Maine v. Meggan M. Pratt
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2020-12-22· cited 7×
• State v. Grant
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-11-16· cited 6×
• State v. Cyr
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-08-03· cited 6×
• State v. Boyd
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1979-05-03· cited 3×
• State v. Bashor
  Montana Supreme Court· 1980-07-01

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1971-05-21· cited 48×
• State v. Garcia
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1971-07-30· cited 27×
• State v. Wyman
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1970-11-12· cited 27×
• Torrey v. Congress Square Hotel Co.
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1950-07-22· cited 22×
• State v. Garceau
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1961-05-02· cited 21×
• Bessey v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1972-11-22· cited 13×
• State v. Fitzherbert
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1969-02-05· cited 12×
• State v. Doyon
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1966-07-19· cited 11×
• City of Topeka v. Harvey
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1961-11-10· cited 10×
• State v. Castonguay
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1970-03-30· cited 6×
• Sikes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-03-10· cited 3×