Already have an account? Sign in instead.
You stay signed in for 30 days on this browser.
Continue with Google Continue with MicrosoftNo account yet? Create a free one.
We sent a six-digit code.
It expires in ten minutes, works once, and only in this browser. Five wrong tries void it. Send another code.
Your account is live and the Cloudflare checks are off for this browser.
6 Colorado opinions name it 2 courts 1985–2025 2 in the last five years
The cases below were cited by Colorado courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.
| Case | Followed | Cited |
|---|---|---|
Cohen v. Peoplegreen2 sentences2025The problem with using excerpts from opinions to formulate instructions is that the opinion language “may be a proper expression of the law as related to th[e] facts and issues” in 6 that particular case but may not be “sufficiently general, clear, or accurate to serve as a satisfactory or full instruction to the jury.” People v. Riley, 708 P.2d 1359, 1366 (Colo. 1985) (quoting Cohen v. People, 103 P.2d 479, 480 (1940)). 2006Although language in an opinion may be a correct statement of the law as related to the facts and issues in the case, it may not be "sufficiently general, clear, or accurate to serve as a satisfactory or full instruction to a jury." Cohen v. People, 106 Colo. 245, 247 , 103 P.2d 479, 480 (1940) (quoted in Evans v. People, supra, 706 P.2d at 800). | 4 | 5 |
People v. Rileygreen1 sentence2025The problem with using excerpts from opinions to formulate instructions is that the opinion language “may be a proper expression of the law as related to th[e] facts and issues” in 6 that particular case but may not be “sufficiently general, clear, or accurate to serve as a satisfactory or full instruction to the jury.” People v. Riley, 708 P.2d 1359, 1366 (Colo. 1985) (quoting Cohen v. People, 103 P.2d 479, 480 (1940)). | 1 | 1 |
People v. Pahlgreen1 sentence2015See People v. Pahl, 169 P.3d 169, 184 (Colo. App. 2006) ("Although language in an opinion may be a correct statement of the law as related to the facts and issues in the case, it may not be sufficiently general, clear, or accurate to serve as a satisfactory or full instruction to a jury." (internal quotation marks omitted)). | 1 | 1 |
Evans v. Peoplegreen1 sentence1985Cohen v. People, 106 Colo. 245, 247 , 103 P.2d 479, 480 (1940); accord Evans v. People, 706 P.2d 795 (Colo.1985). | 1 | 1 |
| Case | Negative | Cited |
|---|---|---|
| No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Colorado. Read the followed side critically anyway. | ||
| Case | Cited | Years |
|---|---|---|
People v. Blair
green
1 sentence1985The court stated in Blair , in the course of upholding the trial court’s rejection of the defendant’s tendered instruction on good faith as an absolute defense to charges of securities fraud, that “[g]ood faith is not a proper defense in this case.” Blair , 195 Colo, at 468, 579 P.2d at 1139 . 6 We again caution trial courts about the danger of taking abstract statements from court opinions and formulating instructions of law based thereon. [Ljanguage used in an opinion pertinent to the issues and the determined facts in that case may be a proper expression of the law as related to those facts | 1 | 1985–1985 |