State v. Sherman

How courts have described this case

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

• cautionary instruction in response to improper comment on defendant’s failure to testify in his own defense
• “If such error is to be cured, it is essential that a cautionary instruction be given immediately in order that the seed planted by the remark will not be given time to germinate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Oliveira
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-07-06· cited 54×
• State v. Bertram
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1991-05-06· cited 52×
• State v. Jefferson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1976-03-10· cited 47×
• United States v. George H. Farnkoff, Jr.
  First Circuit· 1976-05-12· cited 40×
• State v. Verdone
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1975-05-20· cited 36×
• State v. Gibbons
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-08-05· cited 35×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1978-03-03· cited 26×
• State v. Hoyle
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1979-07-25· cited 21×
• State v. Fontaine
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1974-08-05· cited 18×
• State v. Tony Gonzalez
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2016-03-29· cited 17×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1981-02-26· cited 13×
• State v. Andrews
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1978-08-18· cited 10×
• Rhode Island Grand Jury v. Doe
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1994-05-20· cited 3×
• Baylies v. Doberstein, 97-6046 (2003)
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2003-09-04
• State v. Trequan Baker
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2026-03-24

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Malloy v. Hogan
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 3,675×
• United States v. John Flannery
  First Circuit· 1971-11-12· cited 191×
• George C. Desmond, and v. United States
  First Circuit· 1965-05-18· cited 104×
• State v. Peters
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1954-08-10· cited 33×
• State v. Kozukonis
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1965-12-02· cited 23×
• White v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1969-01-08· cited 15×
• State v. Lacy
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1958-02-21· cited 7×
• State v. Dymond
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1970-04-30· cited 4×