State v. Sierra

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court abused its discretion in admitting evidence because it failed to perform necessary legal test
• uncharged misconduct evidence inadmissible to establish defendant’s identity because incidents not so unusual or distinctive as to be like signature
• “[discretion means a legal discretion, to be exercised in conformity with the spirit of the law and in a manner to subserve and not to impede or defeat the ends of substantial justice” [internal quotation marks omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-09-07· cited 172×
• State v. Prioleau
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-08-22· cited 166×
• State v. Saucier
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-07-17· cited 151×
• State v. Mooney
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-03-19· cited 145×
• State v. Figueroa
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-08-15· cited 114×
• State v. Baldwin
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-01-12· cited 101×
• State v. Santiago
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-12-29· cited 98×
• State v. Woodson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-08-03· cited 94×
• State v. Sawyer
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-08-08· cited 94×
• State v. James G.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-04-13· cited 89×
• State v. Randolph
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-11-13· cited 88×
• State v. Crafts
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-07-06· cited 86×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-07-18· cited 85×
• State v. Duntz
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-07-28· cited 81×
• State v. Orr
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-05-26· cited 74×
• State v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-07-27· cited 66×
• State v. Payne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-05-21· cited 62×
• State v. Gould
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-05-20· cited 58×
• State v. Graham
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1994-01-25· cited 58×
• State v. Nunes
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-07-02· cited 56×

Cites

41 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 7,325×
• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• Boyd v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1886-02-01· cited 3,820×
• Tumey v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1927-03-14· cited 2,714×
• Spencer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1966-11-21· cited 1,416×
• Payne v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1958-05-19· cited 840×
• Carlos Garza De Luna v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1962-08-15· cited 251×
• United States v. Julius L. Echeles
  Seventh Circuit· 1965-12-01· cited 191×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1975-12-09· cited 134×
• State v. Falby
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-05-04· cited 129×
• State v. Ruth
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-06-10· cited 127×
• State v. Vilalastra
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-04-05· cited 110×
• State v. Braman
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-12-27· cited 106×
• State v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-04-22· cited 99×
• State v. Onofrio
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1979-09-04· cited 97×
• United Dairymen of Arizona v. LaSalvia
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-15· cited 89×
• David M. Robinson v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-01-03· cited 87×
• State v. Ibraimov
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-06-15· cited 86×

Other cases named State v. Sierra

18 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• State v. Sierra
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1988-05-18· cited 49×
• State v. Sierra
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2020-03-13· cited 31×
• State v. Sierra
  Montana Supreme Court· 1985-01-04· cited 29×
• State v. Sierra
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2010-12-30· cited 27×
• State v. Sierra
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2011-02-17· cited 25×
• State v. Sierra
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1976-10-06· cited 15×
• State v. Sierra
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1977-07-19· cited 11×
• State v. Sierra
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-10-04· cited 11×
• State v. Sierra
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2017-08-10· cited 6×
• State v. Sierra
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2011-12-28· cited 6×
• State v. Sierra
  Marion County Circuit Court, Oregon· 2016-05-04· cited 5×
• State v. Sierra
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2009-04-29· cited 3×
• State v. Sierra
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 2023-05-02· cited 3×
• State v. Sierra
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2008-07-16
• State v. Sierra
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2010-07-29
• State v. Sierra
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2017-08-10
• State v. Sierra
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-04-08
• State v. Sierra
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1976-03-23