Yusem v. People

How courts have described this case

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

• prior act evidence is admissible to prove elements of the charged offense
• the first Spoto prong is met if the purpose for which the prior act 23 evidence is offered is somehow probative of an ultimate or intermediate fact
• “Additionally, the jury instructions did nothing to limit the prejudice and arguably served only to confuse the jury and permit them to rely on the inference of bad character.”
• “ [The first Spoto ] prong considers not the substance of the prior act evidence , but the fact in the case for which the evidence is offered to prove.”
• recent application of Spoto test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

72 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Smalley
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2015-10-08· cited 998×
• People v. Clark
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2015-04-23· cited 989×
• People v. Glasser
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2011-03-31· cited 605×
• Krutsinger v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2009-10-13· cited 603×
• People v. Salazar
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2012-03-19· cited 376×
• Pernell v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2018-02-20· cited 364×
• People v. Casias
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-07-19· cited 359×
• Bondsteel v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2019-04-22· cited 358×
• v. Denhartog
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2019-02-21· cited 337×
• v. Hamilton
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2019-07-03· cited 262×
• People v. Arzabala
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-06-21· cited 213×
• People v. Hard
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2014-10-09· cited 192×
• The People of the State of Colorado v. Adrian Elijah Salazar
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2023-11-02· cited 192×
• v. Meils
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2019-12-12· cited 185×
• v. Wakefield
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2018-03-22· cited 178×
• People v. Lopez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2016-12-15· cited 165×
• Nicholls v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2017-06-19· cited 99×
• People v. Heredia-Cobos
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2017-10-19· cited 89×
• People v. Lahr
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2013-04-25· cited 71×
• Parks v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-11-30· cited 65×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Spoto
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-07-09· cited 1,098×
• Masters v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2002-10-15· cited 936×
• People v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2001-06-25· cited 840×
• People v. Rath
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2002-04-08· cited 792×
• People v. Gaffney
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-02-21· cited 332×
• United States v. Stephen Roderick McRae
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-04-23· cited 253×
• Stull v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1959-09-21· cited 237×
• People v. Willner
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1994-07-18· cited 186×
• People v. Snyder
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1994-05-23· cited 125×
• Salcedo v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2000-05-01· cited 63×
• Vialpando v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1986-11-10· cited 25×
• Douglas v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1998-11-30· cited 17×
• People v. Dover
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-04-30· cited 17×
• People v. Taylor
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2005-09-22· cited 13×