Ethington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Santellan v. State (1997), Leday v. State (1998)
150 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 Montgomery v. State · Thomas v. State · Hudson v. State · Sattiewhite v. State · Goodman 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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hese rules state that if, on appeal, a defendant claims the trial judge erred in admitting evidence offered by the State, this error must have been preserved by a proper objection and a ruling on that objection. The objection must be timely; that is, the defense must have objected to the evidence, if possible, before it was actually admitted. If this was not possible, the defense must have objected as soon as the objectionable nature of the evidence became apparent and must have moved to strike the evidence, that is, to have it removed from the body of evidence the jury is allowed to consider. The defense must have stated specifically the basis for the objection unless the particular ground was apparent from the context. The trial judge must have overruled the objection. If the judge refuses to rule on the objection, an objection to this refusal to rale is sufficient to preserve error in the admission of the evidence. When the court, out of the jury’s presence, hears and overrules objections to evidence, those objections need not again be made before the jury when the evidence is actually presented to the jury. Error cannot be predicated upon a trial judge’s ruling that admits or excludes evidence unless “a substantial right of the party is affected.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Castillo v. State · Vann v. State“When the court hears objections to offered evidence out of the presence of the jury and rules that such evidence be admitted, such objections shall be deemed to apply to such evidence when it is admitted before the jury without the necessity of repeating those objections.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not encompass too broad a reach of subject matter over too broad a time or different witnesses. Rule 52(a) [3] must be complied with.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re AP
How this case has been treated — in progress
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