State v. Miranda

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that specific acts of violence introduced as evidence of victim’s character have “the potential to surprise, to arouse prejudice, to multiply the issues and confuse the jury, and to prolong the trial”
• permitting, for first time, victim’s convictions for violent crimes to be used to prove character and declining to carve similar exception for proof by specific acts
• although trial court applied legal standard in effect at time of trial, change of law on appeal necessitates reversal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Lynch
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-10-19· cited 264×
• State v. Mason
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-03-30· cited 121×
• State v. Gooch
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-01-05· cited 117×
• State v. Furlough
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1990-04-10· cited 112×
• State v. Sawyer
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-08-08· cited 94×
• State v. Ramos
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-07-30· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Adjutant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-03-14· cited 78×
• State v. DeJesus
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-09-04· cited 75×
• State v. Bember
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1981-04-07· cited 69×
• State v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-02-01· cited 69×
• Johns v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1981-08-17· cited 67×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-05-05· cited 66×
• State v. Shabazz
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-09-08· cited 63×
• State v. Hedge
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-08-03· cited 62×
• State v. Whitford
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-07-02· cited 59×
• State v. DeJesus
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-06-11· cited 49×
• State v. Baca
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1992-08-31· cited 45×
• Shabazz v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-03-26· cited 40×
• State v. Tribble
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-04-29· cited 32×
• State v. Maxwell
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1992-12-15· cited 28×

Cites

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

• People v. Miller
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-05-11· cited 193×
• Commonwealth v. Amos
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 111×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-09-02· cited 106×
• Dempsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1954-04-07· cited 98×
• United States v. James H. Burks
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-10-19· cited 94×
• Guss Maggitt v. Donald Wyrick, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary
  Eighth Circuit· 1976-04-07· cited 81×
• State v. Tropiano
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1969-09-24· cited 77×
• State v. Jacoby
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-12-21· cited 76×
• State v. Townsend
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1975-02-04· cited 54×
• Mattie M. Evans v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1960-03-31· cited 51×
• State v. Infantolino
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1976-04-23· cited 51×
• State v. Blake
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1968-10-23· cited 46×
• State v. Conyers
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1971-03-26· cited 46×
• State v. Griffin
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1965-10-08· cited 45×
• United States v. Akers
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-06-02· cited 45×
• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1976-02-03· cited 41×
• Stover v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-04-26· cited 31×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1952-07-01· cited 29×
• State v. Alderette
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1974-07-03· cited 29×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-09-23· cited 24×