State v. Ralph

How courts have described this case

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

• holding an officer could testify as to the defendant’s mother’s statement that her son was a drug addict provided the mother was available for cross-examination
• upholding admission of evidence that a defendant charged with a drug robbery was a narcotics addict
• “Drug addiction is not the type of ‘character’ trait dealt with in 60-447. It cannot be shown to be ‘good’ or ‘bad’, but is simply a medical fact.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Rice
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1997-01-31· cited 99×
• State v. Moses
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1980-03-01· cited 72×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1975-07-17· cited 56×
• State v. Gaines
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-10-25· cited 28×
• State v. Burnett
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-12-11· cited 20×
• State v. Shaffer
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1981-02-28· cited 14×
• Brock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-04-14· cited 5×
• Gettings v. McKune
  D. Kansas· 2000-02-22· cited 3×
• State v. Burnett
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1979-12-28· cited 2×
• State v. Suedel
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-11-05

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Ralls
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1973-11-03· cited 56×
• People v. O'Brand
  California Court of Appeal· 1949-07-08· cited 24×
• Riley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1959-10-28· cited 23×
• Candelaria v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1972-01-24· cited 19×
• State v. Pappan
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1970-12-12· cited 17×
• State v. Greene
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1974-03-02· cited 15×
• State v. Guerrero
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1966-06-03· cited 7×