People v. Rojas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that child’s statements were sufficiently reliable where they were made in response to nonleading, open-ended questions, in age-appropriate language, with no evidence of bias, and victim “made substantially similar statements to more than one person”
• “Closing argument must be confined to the evidence admitted at trial, the inferences that can reasonably and fairly be drawn from it, and the instructions of law submitted to the jury.”
• “[T]he fact that not all the relevant factors support admissibility does not require exclusion of the statements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Phillips
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-10-25· cited 855×
• People v. Ujaama
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-03-15· cited 685×
• People v. Samuels
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2009-10-15· cited 194×
• People v. Gladney
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2010-05-13· cited 52×
• People v. Melara
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2025-05-15· cited 32×
• People v. Brown
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2011-08-04· cited 21×
• People v. Cernazanu
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2015-09-10· cited 14×
• People v. Marks
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2015-12-03· cited 14×
• Smith v. Kinningham
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2013-07-03· cited 13×
• People v. DeBella
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2009-05-14· cited 11×
• People v. Fortson
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2018-04-05· cited 2×
• People v. Stackhouse
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-11-21

Cites

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

• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• People v. Ramirez
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2007-04-16· cited 883×
• People v. Shreck
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2001-05-14· cited 854×
• Wilson v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-09-14· cited 590×
• People v. Jenkins
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2003-05-15· cited 535×
• United States v. Mitchell
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-09-05· cited 194×
• State v. Mason
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-07-19· cited 136×
• Lanari v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-03-10· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. O'Laughlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-03-10· cited 73×
• People v. Sandoval
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-02-17· cited 66×
• People v. Bowers
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-11-13· cited 61×
• People v. Allee
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2003-04-10· cited 61×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2007-06-29· cited 58×
• People v. Fasy
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-05-18· cited 55×
• People v. Roy
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1986-08-25· cited 54×
• People v. Vialpando
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1990-06-28· cited 54×
• People v. Welsh
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2007-04-05· cited 53×
• People v. District Court of El Paso County
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-07-24· cited 49×
• People v. Dash
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2004-08-12· cited 46×
• State v. Hannon
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2005-08-18· cited 43×