Corbett v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when the witness testified that she did not remember what occurred on the day in question, there could not be an implied inconsistency
• suggesting that victims may change their prospective testimony because of loss of memory, selective amnesia, or untruthfulness
• holding prior inconsistent statement exception not satisfied when witness cannot remember events described in pretrial statement
• holding a witness “truly devoid of memory of an event lacks the ability to testify fully and accurately about it, not the willingness to do so”
• “When a witness’s claim of lack of memory amounts to deliberate evasion, inconsistency is implied.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tharp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-12-07· cited 41×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-04-26· cited 38×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-03-01· cited 22×
• Blair v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-03-06· cited 19×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-03-09· cited 13×
• Belton v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2003-10-06· cited 11×
• Lawson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2005-01-10· cited 7×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2001-03-28· cited 5×
• McClain v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2012-03-21· cited 4×
• Wise v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2020-11-24· cited 3×
• Wise v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-11-20· cited 3×
• Townes v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-02-03

Cites

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

• People v. Arias
  California Supreme Court· 1996-04-11· cited 595×
• People v. Johnson
  California Supreme Court· 1992-11-30· cited 423×
• United States v. Willie H. Dennis
  Eighth Circuit· 1980-07-29· cited 416×
• United States v. George Samuel Walter Rogers
  Eighth Circuit· 1976-12-30· cited 173×
• People v. Green
  California Supreme Court· 1971-01-29· cited 148×
• State v. Lenarchick
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 122×
• United States v. Bruce Bonnett
  Tenth Circuit· 1989-06-07· cited 99×
• Nance v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1993-08-23· cited 78×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-07-30· cited 69×
• Shoemaker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-05-01· cited 68×
• United States v. Paul Dicaro
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-10-04· cited 67×
• United States v. Morris Ray Bigham and Leonel Leal, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-04-06· cited 59×
• United States v. Knox
  Tenth Circuit· 1997-09-17· cited 46×
• Grier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1998-09-23· cited 46×
• Harmony v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1991-09-05· cited 36×
• State v. Werner
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-04-04· cited 34×
• Law Offices of Hafif v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-02· cited 32×
• United States v. Robert L. Russell
  Eighth Circuit· 1983-07-25· cited 26×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1996-04-17· cited 25×
• West v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1998-12-03· cited 23×