Casalvera v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2008
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 262 Pa. Super. 280 - Commonwealth v. Lee · Derrickson v. State · Shantz v. State · State v. 0.0673 ACRES OF LAND, ETC. · Young v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The note was not offered as proof that the victim and the defendant were having problems, but was offered to show the victim’s state of mind as it related to the defendant’s defense of extreme emotional distress, and was offered to impeach his testimony. The defendant testified at considerable length regarding his belief that he and the victim were not having problems in their relationship. A substantial part of this testimony was his recollection of what the victim had told or written him. That testimony would have been hearsay had it been offered to prove the status of the relationship. The State’s evidence was offered to show that the defendant did not, in fact, have the beliefs he professed in his direct testimony. Because the note was not offered to prove the truth of the matters asserted therein, we conclude that it was admissible hearsay. It was the defendant who placed this point in issue and the note was properly introduced to impeach his credibility on this matter. The defendant recognized the victim’s handwriting and the State was properly allowed to ask whether the thoughts expressed in the note had been communicated to the defendant. In any event, this Court has held that reliable evidence of a victim’s state of mind falls within an exception to the hearsay rule. Derrickson v. State, Del. Supr., 321 A.2d 497 (1974). We are satisfied that the evidence in question meets the requirements of admissibility approved in Derrickson .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Porter“slides, depicting the nature of the [victim’s] wounds, [are] relevant to both the defendant’s intent to kill and to his state of mind. The former [is] an element of the crime of murder in the first degree which the State had to prove and the latter reflects] on the defendant’s defense of extreme emotional distress. Casalvera, supra, at 1372 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickens v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.