State v. Sprague

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that agent entrapped defendant by goading defendant and repeatedly requesting drugs from him
• finding persistent pressure by an undercover officer may constitute entrapment
• the officer’s persistent requests and prodding constituted entrapment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1987-10-14· cited 19×
• State v. Pappas
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-08-28· cited 13×
• State v. Cripps
  Utah Supreme Court· 1984-10-26· cited 13×
• State v. Smith
  Utah Supreme Court· 2024-05-02· cited 13×
• State v. Wynia
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1988-05-09· cited 11×
• State v. Dickerson
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2022-05-05· cited 9×
• State v. Martin
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-01-13· cited 8×
• State v. Kaufman
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-02-20· cited 7×
• State v. Torres
  Utah Supreme Court· 2000-12-22· cited 6×
• State v. Hernandez
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2020-04-09· cited 5×
• State v. Hatchett
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2020-04-09· cited 3×
• State v. J.D.W.
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1995-03-02· cited 3×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2022-06-30· cited 3×
• State v. Belt
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-09-26· cited 1×
• State v. Buranek
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2025-06-20· cited 1×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Taylor
  Utah Supreme Court· 1979-08-07· cited 39×
• State v. Kourbelas
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-11-28· cited 18×
• State v. Ontiveros
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-11-09· cited 12×