Burke v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding instruction “unduly emphasized” victim’s testimony without “similarly indicating that other witnesses’ testimony need not be corroborated”
• rejecting an instruction based upon Lord Hale’s dictum that rape is easy to charge and difficult to disprove
• cautioning against long-term inactivity or a pattern of lack of prompt investigations
• evidence of prior sexual acts with the same victim may be admissible to prove elements of a sexual assault case
• evidence of prior sexual acts with the same victim may be admissible to prove elements of a sexual assault case
• evidence of prior sex crimes admissible as background information to explain victim's testimony in context and to provide fact finder with probative information of an ongoing relationship between the accused and the victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

35 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Arceo
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1996-11-18· cited 364×
• Covington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-07-26· cited 96×
• State v. Ferrero
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2012-04-11· cited 91×
• State v. Craig
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1985-01-11· cited 72×
• Surina v. Buckalew
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-04-06· cited 42×
• State v. Melcher
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1996-05-08· cited 40×
• Moor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-11-08· cited 37×
• Soper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1987-01-23· cited 26×
• State v. Morgan
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-06-07· cited 21×
• Nathaniel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-09-02· cited 19×
• State v. Gross
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 18×
• Velez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-10-07· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-10-08· cited 16×
• Smallwood v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-04-13· cited 16×
• Garner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-01-03· cited 13×
• York v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-06-10· cited 12×
• Goulden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-01-14· cited 12×
• State v. Dever
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2022-03-17· cited 11×
• Kailukiak v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-05-08· cited 10×
• Bolden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-06-27· cited 10×

Cites

43 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Lovasco
  Supreme Court· 1977-10-03· cited 2,170×
• People v. Rincon-Pineda
  California Supreme Court· 1975-07-31· cited 246×
• People v. Thomas
  California Supreme Court· 1978-01-16· cited 147×
• Marks v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-04-21· cited 144×
• Rabinovitch v. Nyquist
  Supreme Court· 1977-10-03· cited 131×
• Frink v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-06-29· cited 121×
• Evans v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-05-28· cited 112×
• State v. Smoot
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1978-11-22· cited 92×
• P. H. v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-12-29· cited 89×
• People v. Stanley
  California Supreme Court· 1967-11-29· cited 85×
• State v. Jerousek
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1979-02-06· cited 76×
• State v. Berry
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1966-10-19· cited 74×
• Coleman v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-10-10· cited 71×
• State v. Treadaway
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-07-11· cited 68×
• People v. Covert
  California Court of Appeal· 1967-03-02· cited 66×
• People v. Sylvia
  California Supreme Court· 1960-05-10· cited 66×
• State v. Glass
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-05-25· cited 63×
• Tarnef v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-07-25· cited 61×
• State v. Kristich
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1961-03-01· cited 60×
• State v. Minns
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1969-04-04· cited 59×