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7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 28 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Daines v. Vincent.

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1 Daines v. Vincent Anchor
utah · 2008
green “we grant a trial court broad discretion to admit or exclude evidence and will disturb its ruling only for abuse of discretion.” 9
2 State v. Lanier
utah · 1989
green “the test for harmless error in cases involving an erroneous failure to exclude prior convictions is whether, absent the error, there was a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable result for the party.” 4
3 State v. Slowe
utah · 1985
green “inflammatory in the sense that the jury may use the conviction against the defendant for purposes other than determining the defendant's credibility, and therefore would tend to induce the jury to render a verdict outside the relevant substantive evidence.” 3
4 State v. Gomez
utah · 2002
green “the trial court must . . . evaluate and consider the probative value of the proffered testimony, that is, the extent to which the proposed testimony is probative of truthfulness or untruthfulness . . . .” 3
5 Robinson v. Paul Ray Taylor, M.D.
utah · 2015
green “dr. taylor is a convicted felon, convicted of unlawfully selling prescriptions for oxycodone in parking lots.” 3
6 Robinson v. Paul Ray Taylor, M.D.
utah · 2015
green “the critical question in a rule 403 analysis for unfair prejudice is whether the evidence is so prejudicial that the jury will be unable to fairly weigh the evidence.” 3
7 Barrientos ex rel. Nelson v. Jones
utah · 2012
green “we grant a trial court broad discretion to admit or exclude evidence and will disturb its ruling only for abuse of discretion, and then only if the ruling was beyond the limits of reasonability.” 3

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