State v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• “Although [the abuse of discretion standard] is a stringent test, our jurisprudence illustrates that it does not insulate every ruling made by a trial justice.”
• stating “that evidence which is not relevant is not admissible”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Lead Industries, Ass'n, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2008-07-01· cited 77×
• State v. Lopez-Navor
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2008-07-10· cited 15×
• State v. Pitts
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2010-03-23· cited 12×
• STATE v. Ramon VIROLA
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2015-06-04· cited 11×
• State v. Hiawatha Brown
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2013-04-05· cited 6×
• State v. Patrick Timothy McDonald
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2017-04-20· cited 6×
• State v. Malcolm Querido
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2020-06-17
• State v. James Robinson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2023-07-13
• State v. Chandanoeuth Hay
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2025-05-29

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• Elliott v. Leavitt
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-11-26· cited 227×
• United States v. Julio La Guardia, United States of America v. Eredia Josefa Jimenez-Minalla
  First Circuit· 1990-04-25· cited 175×
• State v. Grayhurst
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-06-23· cited 83×
• Selwyn v. Ward
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-07-07· cited 38×
• State v. Gelinas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-08-05· cited 34×
• Cullen v. Town Council of the Lincoln
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-04-12· cited 33×
• State v. Silvia
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-05-31· cited 31×
• Kent County Water Authority v. State (Department of Health)
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1999-01-29· cited 26×
• State v. O'BRIEN
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-06-29· cited 25×
• State v. Snell
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-02-27· cited 24×
• State v. Dennis
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-03-17· cited 23×
• Sweet v. Pace Membership Warehouse, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-05-02· cited 16×
• Broadley v. Mashpee Neck Marina, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2006-12-22· cited 14×
• Geloso v. Kenny
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-12-19· cited 13×
• State v. Carvalho
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-03-07· cited 9×