State v. Marrs

How courts have described this case

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

• “W.Va R. Evid. 404 codifies the common law rules on the admission of character evidence.”
• evidence of defendant having “reputation … for not selling illegal drugs is not admissible character evidence under Rule 404”
• reputation for not selling illegal drugs is not a \trait of character\
• reputation for not selling illegal drugs is not a “trait of character”
• defendant's reputation for not selling drugs is inadmissible
• defendant’s reputation for not selling drugs is inadmissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Guthrie
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-07-21· cited 1,064×
• City of Kennewick v. Day
  Washington Supreme Court· 2000-10-12· cited 55×
• David Meadows v. Carl Legursky, Sam Blackburn Acord v. Jerry Hedrick
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-06-27· cited 51×
• Gilman v. Choi
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-01-25· cited 43×
• State v. Rahman
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-12-20· cited 31×
• State of West Virginia v. Rashaun R. Boyd and Christopher R. Wyche
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-01-19· cited 28×
• Parham v. Horace Mann Insurance
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-11· cited 23×
• State Ex Rel. Azeez v. Mangum
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-12-14· cited 17×
• Payne v. Gundy
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-02-15· cited 16×
• State v. Kirkland
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-07-15· cited 13×
• State v. Bass
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-06-11· cited 11×
• Martin v. Charleston Area Medical Ctr.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-03-09· cited 10×
• State v. Mills
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2005-11-17· cited 9×
• State v. Harris
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-06-09· cited 5×
• State of West Virginia v. David M. Wasanyi
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2018-11-05· cited 5×
• State Ex Rel. Ballard v. Painter
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2003-02-27· cited 4×
• Davis v. McBride
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2007-10-12· cited 3×
• State of West Virginia v. Leonard C. Lewis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-03-09· cited 2×
• United States v. Lawrence
  U S Air Force Court of Military Review· 1990-06-20· cited 2×
• State of West Virginia v. Phillip Gregory Johnson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-06-13

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• Castaneda v. Partida
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-23· cited 1,507×
• Strauder v. West Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1880-03-18· cited 1,327×
• Alexander v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1972-04-03· cited 889×
• Avery v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1953-07-14· cited 541×
• Hack v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1982-05-06· cited 64×
• State v. Welker
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-04-28· cited 11×
• State v. Padgett
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1923-05-01· cited 11×
• State v. Fisher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-06-03· cited 7×
• People v. Berge
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1984-07-13· cited 5×