State v. Gomes

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there was no abuse of discretion in trial justice excluding introduction of evidence concerning unreliability of eyewitness testimony because it could only confuse or mislead the jury
• “When reviewing the instructions of a trial justice, we must examine the instructions in their entirety in order to determine the manner in which a jury of ordinarily intelligent lay persons would have understood the instructions as a whole.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-09· cited 88×
• State v. Marini
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-03-08· cited 79×
• State v. Oliveira
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-07-06· cited 54×
• State v. Pacheco
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-01-03· cited 44×
• State v. Ros
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-07-01· cited 43×
• Powers v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1999-07-16· cited 40×
• State v. Gatone
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-07-25· cited 38×
• State v. Mastracchio
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1992-07-13· cited 38×
• State v. Sabetta
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1996-07-10· cited 36×
• State v. Lynch
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-05-04· cited 30×
• State v. Leuthavone
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-04-14· cited 27×
• State v. Werner
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-07-01· cited 22×
• State v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2000-01-31· cited 22×
• State v. Gardiner
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-01-31· cited 20×
• State v. King
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-04-23· cited 19×
• Parrella v. Bowling
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-05-16· cited 19×
• State v. Kittell
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-04-22· cited 18×
• State v. Krushnowski
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-06-13· cited 18×
• State v. Day
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-05-25· cited 16×
• State v. Hurteau
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-11-25· cited 15×

Cites

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

• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• Manson v. Brathwaite
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 5,119×
• Napue v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 4,234×
• Gilbert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,797×
• State v. Henshaw
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1989-04-25· cited 69×
• State v. Grundy
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1990-11-21· cited 55×
• State v. Wheeler
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1985-07-29· cited 47×
• State v. Beaumier
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1984-08-01· cited 46×
• State v. Nicoletti
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1984-01-27· cited 41×
• State v. Fogarty
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-08-27· cited 38×
• State v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1984-03-20· cited 36×
• State v. Vargas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-09-16· cited 35×
• State v. McParlin
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-11-17· cited 35×
• State v. Veluzat
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1990-07-20· cited 32×
• State v. Pailon
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1991-04-30· cited 29×
• State v. Dame
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1985-02-20· cited 25×
• State v. Powers
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1987-06-01· cited 21×
• State v. Camirand
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1990-04-10· cited 21×