State v. Poe

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the trial court abused its discretion in admitting color slides made during the course of an autopsy depicting the deceased’s skull after removal of the brain
• ―[I]t is within the sound discretion of the trial court to determine whether the inflammatory nature of such slides is outweighed by their probative value with respect to a fact in issue. If the latter they may be admitted even though gruesome.‖
• ―[I]t is within the sound discretion of the trial court to determine whether the inflammatory nature of such slides is outweighed by their probative value with respect to a fact in issue. If the latter they may be admitted even though gruesome.‖

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Chapple
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-01-11· cited 423×
• State v. Bishop
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-02-03· cited 250×
• State v. Lafferty
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-01-11· cited 244×
• State of Iowa v. Christopher Craig Thompson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-23· cited 173×
• State v. Eldredge
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-02-01· cited 147×
• State of Iowa v. Jonas Dorian Neiderbach
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-23· cited 135×
• State v. Pierre
  Utah Supreme Court· 1977-11-25· cited 121×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1991-07-25· cited 103×
• State v. Beason
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1973-03-01· cited 95×
• State v. Clawson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-09-23· cited 94×
• State v. Bullock
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-10-18· cited 92×
• State v. Cloud
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-05-23· cited 51×
• State v. Cobb
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-05-03· cited 43×
• State v. Met
  Utah Supreme Court· 2016-11-21· cited 42×
• State v. Conner
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-09-08· cited 37×
• People v. Turner
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1969-04-23· cited 37×
• State v. Renzo
  Utah Supreme Court· 1968-07-09· cited 29×
• State v. Gee
  Utah Supreme Court· 1972-07-07· cited 25×
• State v. Codianna
  Utah Supreme Court· 1977-12-29· cited 21×
• State v. Close
  Utah Supreme Court· 1972-07-10· cited 19×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Turner v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 1,063×
• Oxendine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1958-11-12· cited 136×
• State v. Bucanis
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1958-02-03· cited 117×
• State v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1957-06-10· cited 85×
• The People v. Jackson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1956-11-26· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Ballem
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-06-25· cited 57×
• State v. Huff
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1954-01-04· cited 30×
• State v. Solomon
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1952-12-15· cited 29×
• State v. Tyson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1953-06-08· cited 29×
• State v. Johnson
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1953-08-12· cited 27×
• State v. Woods
  Utah Supreme Court· 1923-09-24· cited 25×
• State v. Romeo
  Utah Supreme Court· 1912-09-03· cited 19×