Re v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2008
9 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Estelle v. Smith · Buchanan v. Kentucky · Hughes v. State · Hooks 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hearsay, under D.R.E. 801(c) is a statement made outside of trial which is ‘offered in evidence to prove the truth of what it asserts.' Re’s statement to his wife was not offered to prove that he would kill her, or that he would feign insanity. Rather, the statement was offered to rebut Re’s claim that he killed his wife due to extreme emotional distress. Griffin’s statement to Stoner, relating what Re had told her, while technically hearsay, is admissible under D.R.E. 803(3) as one of the exceptions to D.R.E. 802. That exception allows for the admission of statements which reflect the state of mind of the speaker at the time of the statement. Griffin’s statement to Stoner demonstrates Griffin’s fear that Re would kill her. This fear is contrary to Re’s position that Griffin incited stress in him which ultimately led him to kill her. Thus, Griffin’s state of mind was relevant, and the trial judge properly admitted the statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Porter
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