State v. Oster

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing Verlaque and describing the state’s decision to reserve the right to call certain witnesses based on the possibility that certain “unforeseen circumstances” may occur as “entirely valid”
• “A criminal trial is a search for the truth; it is not a game of chess.”
• “A criminal trial is a search for the truth; it is not a game of chess.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-06-29· cited 75×
• State v. McManus
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2010-04-02· cited 33×
• State v. Peoples
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2010-06-21· cited 19×
• Todman v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-09-13· cited 11×
• State v. Marcus Huffman
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2013-06-26· cited 9×
• Twenty Eleven, LLC v. Michael J. Botelho
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2015-12-04· cited 9×
• State v. Francisco Pacheco
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2017-06-16· cited 9×
• State v. Raymond A. Peltier
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2015-05-29· cited 7×
• State v. Farley
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-01-14· cited 6×
• State v. Gonzalez
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2007-06-20· cited 6×
• State v. John Whiting
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2015-05-27· cited 6×
• State v. Jack Gregson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2015-04-27· cited 6×
• State v. Ralph Thibedau
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2017-04-18· cited 6×
• State v. Langstaff
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2010-05-11· cited 4×
• State v. Chaquiro Blandino
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2017-10-30· cited 3×
• Walden v. CITY OF PROVIDENCE, RI
  First Circuit· 2010-02-23
• Derderian v. Essex Insurance Co.
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2009-06-25
• State v. Joseph Lamontagne
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2020-06-30
• State v. Deric S. McGuire
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2022-05-05
• State v. Victor Tavares
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2024-04-22

Cites

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

• Accent Store Design, Inc. v. Marathon House, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1996-04-24· cited 300×
• Matter of Falstaff Brewing Corp.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-02-23· cited 122×
• Kaya v. Partington
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1996-08-01· cited 113×
• Webster v. Perrotta
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-06-27· cited 107×
• State v. Coelho
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-12-24· cited 82×
• Rhode Island Depositors Economic Protection Corp. v. Bowen Court Associates
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-01-05· cited 63×
• In Re Advisory to the Governor
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1996-01-05· cited 61×
• United States v. Mora
  First Circuit· 1987-06-15· cited 53×
• State v. Verlaque
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-09-06· cited 45×
• State v. McParlin
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-11-17· cited 35×
• Beaudoin v. Petit
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1979-12-12· cited 33×
• State v. Maloof
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1975-03-13· cited 32×
• State v. Peabody
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1992-06-16· cited 26×
• United States v. Burford
  S.D. New York· 1991-01-28· cited 24×
• State v. Woodson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1988-12-23· cited 24×
• In Re John N.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-07-20· cited 24×
• United States v. Gambale
  D. Massachusetts· 1985-06-12· cited 23×
• State v. Mollicone
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1995-02-15· cited 22×
• Algiere v. Fox
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1979-07-25· cited 22×
• State v. Powers
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1987-06-01· cited 21×