Knapp 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 trial court’s “total failure to instruct on the State’s burden of proof” in employment discrimination case was prejudicial and required reversal
• rejecting the State’s claim that the trial court’s brief, accurate clarification of the law “negated the prejudice that resulted from the court’s total failure to instruct on the State’s burden of proof”
• to prevail, plaintiff must show that “motivating factor” had determinative influence on outcome of employment decision
• propriety of instructions must be determined by considering charge as a whole

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gallipo v. City of Rutland
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-12-21· cited 60×
• DeYoung v. Ruggerio
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2009-01-30· cited 22×
• State v. Hendricks
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-11-16· cited 21×
• State v. Russell
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-04-11· cited 15×
• Barber v. LaFromboise
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2006-08-04· cited 10×
• State v. Boglioli
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-06-16· cited 7×
• State v. Gregory S. Welch
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2020-08-14· cited 7×
• Bazzano v. Killington Country Village, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2003-05-14· cited 4×
• State v. Jay H. Orost
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2025-03-28· cited 4×
• Hammond v. Berlin City's Vt. Remarketed Autos, Inc.
  Vermont Superior Court· 2005-03-10

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-01· cited 3,836×
• Mary Ann Luciano v. The Olsten Corporation Frank N. Liguori Gordon J. Bingham Martin Gelerman
  Second Circuit· 1997-03-21· cited 245×
• Winey v. William E. Dailey, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-11-05· cited 106×
• State v. G.S. Blodgett Co.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1995-01-20· cited 49×
• Fassett v. Town of Roxbury
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1883-05-15· cited 35×
• Mobbs v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-09-28· cited 31×
• Currier v. Letourneau
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1977-04-05· cited 30×
• Graff v. Eaton
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1991-08-30· cited 20×