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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 11 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 State v. Duncan.

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1 State v. Duncan Anchor
ohio · 1978
green “an appellate court should allow a wide discretion in the trial court to determine whether in fact a declarant was at the time of an offered statement still under the influence of an exciting event.” 6
2 State v. Huertas
ohio · 1990
green “to be admissible under evid.r. 803(2) as an excited utterance, a statement must concern some occurrence startling enough to produce a nervous excitement in the declarant,' which occurrence the declarant had an opportunity to observe, and must be made before there had been time f…” 5

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