Tropical Roofing Co. v. Charnow

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that testimony as to out- of-court statements that declarant was upset was admissible under the state of mind exception to the hearsay rule
• stating that “a statement relating to past events based on memory or belief is not permissible to establish the truth of those events, absent relation to the execution, revocation, identification, or terms of the declarant’s will.”
• stating that the “statement must be instinctive, rather than deliberate[.]”
• “[W]here the statement is being offered to show its effect on a listener, it is not being offered for the truth of the matter and is non-hearsay.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).