Harnish v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “spontaneous and instinctive utterances, made without opportunity or time for reflection or deliberation, are more likely to produce a true and accurate picture of the transaction or event of which they form a part”
• mother not allowed to testify as to five-year-old victim’s statement about an event which occurred eleven days earlier between the child and the defendant when the statement was an explanation of the child’s unwillingness to visit the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cassidy v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-02-03· cited 69×
• Lane v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-09-15· cited 44×
• W.C.L. v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-07-09· cited 39×
• Estep v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1972-01-20· cited 19×
• Early v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-10-19· cited 17×
• Deloso v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1977-07-15· cited 13×
• Cluster v. Cole
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1974-05-20· cited 12×
• Lane, Michael v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-09-15

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Gage
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1886-07-01· cited 63×
• People v. Glover
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1888-07-11· cited 34×
• Reckard v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-11-02· cited 32×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-04-23· cited 29×
• Austin v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1968-02-23· cited 16×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1969-01-14· cited 14×