State v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court should issue a limiting instruction cautioning the jury to use past crimes evidence admitted under rule 404(b) only for the purpose for which it was admitted
• holding improper comment harmless when “record contains substantial evidence of defendant’s guilt”
• in prosecution for rape, forcible sodomy, and burglary, the evidence of a prior criminal act to prove identity was admissible but subject to a limiting instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Dunn
  Utah Supreme Court· 1993-03-18· cited 447×
• State v. Campos
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2013-08-29· cited 58×
• State v. Thomas
  Utah Supreme Court· 1999-01-12· cited 37×
• State v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2014-01-16· cited 35×
• State v. Woodland
  Utah Supreme Court· 1997-09-19· cited 32×
• State v. Andreason
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-05-06· cited 13×
• State v. Baker
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1998-07-30· cited 13×
• State v. Bowman
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1997-09-05· cited 9×
• State in Interest of RDS
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-07-27· cited 8×
• State v. Kirkwood
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2002-04-25· cited 5×
• State v. Tucker
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-10-03· cited 4×
• Robbins v. Cook
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-04-28· cited 2×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Baker
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-09-21· cited 130×
• Codianna v. Morris
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-03-01· cited 119×
• State v. Valdez
  Utah Supreme Court· 1973-08-24· cited 63×
• State v. McCumber
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-12-09· cited 61×
• State v. Lairby
  Utah Supreme Court· 1984-12-31· cited 53×
• State v. Wulffenstein
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-12-06· cited 43×
• State v. Creviston
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-05-19· cited 41×
• State v. Anderton
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-08-15· cited 35×
• Brown v. Minneapolis Electric Steel Castings Co.
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-21· cited 34×
• State v. Gray
  Utah Supreme Court· 1979-10-02· cited 27×
• State v. Knill
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-12-22· cited 22×
• State v. Johnson
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-03-24· cited 19×
• State v. Sparks
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-10-14· cited 8×