Contreras v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting case-by-case approach because it “is time consuming, creates a risk of non-uniform results and requires judges to become hypnosis experts in order to make intelligent determinations”
• establishing the importance of distinguishing between the reliability and the corroboration of hearsay statements
• witness may testify as to facts related before hypnosis as long as such information is adequately preserved
• outlining the history of this case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rock v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 2,329×
• State v. Johnston
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1988-10-05· cited 376×
• People v. Wilson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1987-04-02· cited 149×
• State v. Coon
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1999-03-05· cited 132×
• State v. Pollitt
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-08-25· cited 108×
• United States v. Brett C. Kimberlin
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-01-09· cited 107×
• Thorne v. Department of Public Safety
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1989-05-26· cited 90×
• People v. Romero
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-11-09· cited 84×
• State v. Tuttle
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-04-12· cited 79×
• Zani v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-27· cited 72×
• People v. Zayas
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-10-25· cited 72×
• People v. Hayes
  California Supreme Court· 1989-12-28· cited 58×
• Roark v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2002-09-26· cited 51×
• Young v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2016-06-17· cited 43×
• State v. Medrano
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-02-04· cited 41×
• Harmon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-12-22· cited 38×
• Ballard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-04-03· cited 38×
• Nitz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-06-06· cited 34×
• Haakanson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-08-05· cited 31×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-01-22· cited 31×

Cites

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

• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• People v. Shirley
  California Supreme Court· 1982-03-11· cited 314×
• State v. Hurd
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1981-07-14· cited 277×
• State v. MacK
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-05-16· cited 207×
• State Ex Rel. Collins v. SUPERIOR COURT, ETC.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-05-04· cited 181×
• United States v. Moreno L. Keplinger, Paul L. Wright, and James B. Plank
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-10-29· cited 178×
• People v. Hughes
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-07-05· cited 170×
• United States v. Narciso
  E.D. Michigan· 1977-12-19· cited 167×
• Robison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1984-04-02· cited 155×
• United States v. Isiah Williams and Michael Manning
  Second Circuit· 1978-09-20· cited 141×
• Commonwealth v. Nazarovitch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-10-29· cited 141×
• State v. Mena
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-02-03· cited 122×
• House v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-01-25· cited 121×
• Pulakis v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-11-09· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Kater
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-23· cited 100×
• Vivian Sprynczynatyk and Paul Sprynczynatyk, Appellees/cross-Appellants v. General Motors Corporation, Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-09-17· cited 97×
• Hawley v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-07-25· cited 97×
• Chapman v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1982-01-14· cited 96×