State v. Richards

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that opening statements have no evidentiary value and do not justify 404 rebuttal evidence
• stating that rebuttal evidence can only be introduced to rebut evidence previously introduced and that the mention of character issues during opening argument does not open the door to the introduction of otherwise inadmissible character evidence on rebuttal
• evidence of character came “only after the State had introduced evidence of collateral crimes committed by the defendant ... and under these circumstances, the Court cannot conclude that they laid the foundation for the introduction of collateral crimes evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Davis
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2010-05-27· cited 362×
• State v. McGinnis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-12-08· cited 257×
• WINFRED D. v. Michelin North America, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 2008-08-27· cited 41×
• State v. Anastasia
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2003-01-16· cited 12×
• Hoover v. West Virginia Board of Medicine
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2004-05-28· cited 11×
• State v. Gray
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2005-07-06· cited 11×
• State v. Jason H.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2004-06-30· cited 8×
• State v. Mitchell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2003-12-05· cited 2×
• Bailey v. McDonald
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-12-11

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Michelson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-02-14· cited 1,808×
• State v. Louk
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-03-25· cited 122×
• United States v. Charles Tomaiolo and Louis Soviero
  Second Circuit· 1957-11-21· cited 113×
• United States v. Green
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-04-15· cited 78×
• State v. Gwinn
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-03-11· cited 64×
• United States v. Frank C. McLister
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-11-21· cited 40×
• State v. Hardin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1922-05-09· cited 33×
• State v. Woodson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-06-08· cited 24×
• State v. Dietz
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-03-08· cited 21×
• Dietz v. Legursky
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-12-16· cited 13×
• State v. Johnson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-05-29· cited 5×