Osborne v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• approving relaxation of former spousal immunity privilege in the interests of justice under Criminal Rule 53
• stating court will not “exalt form over substance” by blinding itself to probable motivation for eve-of-trial marriage; affirming trial court’s denial of spousal testimony privilege protection to parties who married one week before trial to avoid testifying
• “Compulsory testimony is the basic norm of our legal system. Correspondingly, testimonial privileges, other than those resting upon a constitutional basis, should be given a fairly narrow scope.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hagez v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1996-05-30· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-30· cited 26×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-02-15· cited 19×
• State v. Peters
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-27· cited 17×
• Glover v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-11-02· cited 15×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1984-04-17· cited 12×
• Johnson v. City of Fairbanks
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-07-26· cited 9×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2018-12-14· cited 3×
• Wasserman v. Bartholomew
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1999-09-17· cited 2×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-07-30· cited 1×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Branzburg v. Hayes
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 2,202×
• Trammel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-02-27· cited 1,217×
• Lewis v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-05-22· cited 113×
• State v. Hannagan
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-03-11· cited 56×
• Lee v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-05-18· cited 40×
• United States v. Gilbert Fisher
  Second Circuit· 1975-06-30· cited 25×
• United States v. Alfred Lee Apodaca
  Tenth Circuit· 1975-08-22· cited 23×
• Loesche v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-10-31· cited 22×
• Jefferson v. Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co. of Alaska
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-12-15· cited 12×
• Gordon v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1978-04-28· cited 11×