State v. Wakefield

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that burden placed on defendant by the admission of previously acquitted offense evidence contravenes the basic principle “that once the state has mustered its evidence against a defendant and failed, the matter is done”
• “[W]e conclude that under no circumstances is evidence of a crime other than that for which a defendant is on trial admissible when the defendant has been acquitted of that other offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dowling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1990-01-17· cited 1,616×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-01-06· cited 75×
• Carey v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1986-03-07· cited 39×
• State v. Franks
  Montana Supreme Court· 2014-10-08· cited 27×
• State v. Mundon.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2012-12-05· cited 22×
• State v. Kasper
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1987-07-31· cited 16×
• State v. Pass
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-06-26· cited 13×
• State v. Ross
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-06-07· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Dorazio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-09-02· cited 12×
• State v. O'MEARA
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2008-08-26· cited 11×
• State of New Jersey v. J.M., Jr.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2014-11-21· cited 11×
• McMichael v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1982-01-06· cited 10×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-07-23· cited 8×
• State v. Almengor
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-10-02· cited 5×
• State v. Kasper
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1987-06-26· cited 2×
• State v. Kates
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1999-09-28· cited 2×
• State v. Crocker
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1987-05-20· cited 1×
• State v. Burton
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1979-06-22· cited 1×
• State of Tennessee v. Steve M. Jarman
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2020-07-06
• State v. Utsch
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1987-05-19

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Spreigl
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1965-12-17· cited 368×
• State v. Billstrom
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1967-03-10· cited 160×
• State v. Little
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1960-03-30· cited 135×
• Donald M. Wingate v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, State of Florida
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-07-25· cited 128×
• United States v. Donald J. Picard
  First Circuit· 1972-07-17· cited 48×
• State v. Perkins
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-05-26· cited 42×
• State v. Luchen
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1915-05-21· cited 10×