State v. Shafer

How courts have described this case

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

• a principle underlying timeliness of mistrial motion is that the trial court have the ability to “mend the harm”
• generally, a mistrial motion is timely if it is made when the allegedly objectionable error was made
• “The time to move for a mistrial is when the allegedly prejudicial act occurs, not after the incident has been allowed to pass by, for then it is too late for the trial judge to caution the jury and mend the harm.”
• “The time to move for a mistrial is when the allegedly prejudicial act occurs, not after the incident has been allowed to pass by, for then it is too late for the trial judge to caution the jury and mend the harm.”
• “The time to move for a mistrial is when the allegedly prejudicial act occurs, not after the incident has been allowed to pass by, for then it is too late for the trial judge to caution the jury and mend the harm.”
• “The time to move for a mistrial is when the allegedly prejudicial act occurs, not after the incident has been allowed to pass by, for then it is too late for the trial judge to caution the jury and mend the harm.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Walton
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1991-04-04· cited 149×
• State v. Stevens
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1998-12-17· cited 60×
• State v. Larson
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1997-03-06· cited 43×
• State v. Veatch
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2008-10-29· cited 41×
• State v. Cox
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2015-07-22· cited 30×
• State v. Yielding
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1964-09-10· cited 24×
• State v. Quebrado
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2024-05-16· cited 21×
• State v. Goodale
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1972-05-24· cited 13×
• Maney v. Angelozzi
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2017-05-17· cited 13×
• State v. Kolbe
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1992-09-16· cited 11×
• Simpson v. Coursey
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2008-11-26· cited 10×
• State v. Stevens
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1997-04-30· cited 8×
• State v. Vann
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1999-01-13· cited 7×
• State v. Cooper
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1993-05-19· cited 7×
• State v. Kurz
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2025-08-20· cited 5×
• State v. Smallwood
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1971-02-25· cited 4×
• State v. Sims
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1991-01-23· cited 4×
• State v. Tetukevich
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1993-07-07· cited 2×
• State v. Lee
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1971-05-28· cited 1×
• State v. Folsom
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1993-12-08· cited 1×