State v. Patterson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding exclusion of dismissed charges against testifying codefendant was error because “ ‘exposure of a witness’s motivation in testifying is a proper and important function of the constitutionally protected right of cross-examination’ ”
• trial court’s error in prohibiting cross-examination for bias was harmless given overwhelming weight of evidence against defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ong International (U.S.A.) Inc. v. 11th Avenue Corp.
  Utah Supreme Court· 1993-04-06· cited 103×
• State v. Hackford
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 62×
• State v. Ross
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1997-12-26· cited 43×
• Lucas v. Murray City Civil Service Commission
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1997-11-28· cited 35×
• State v. Vigil
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-03-18· cited 2×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• State v. Scandrett
  Utah Supreme Court· 1970-04-21· cited 48×
• State v. Chesnut
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-11-20· cited 16×