Pierce 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 child witness was available for cross-examination where she was on the witness stand during the protected persons hearing, the court did nothing to prevent the defense from questioning her, yet the defense conducted no actual cross-examination
• explaining that the decision not to cross-examine the victim at a protected person hearing is “readily explainable as a tactical judgment that nothing useful could be accomplished with such a small child”
• stating motive to fabricate and use of age-appropriate terminology are factors to be considered in determining reliability
• defendant cannot claim loss of right to meet witnesses \face to face\ if face to face meeting took place and defendant failed to question witness
• defendant cannot claim loss of right to meet witnesses “face to face” if face to face meeting took place and defendant failed to question witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

37 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Timberlake v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-12-30· cited 148×
• Carpenter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2003-04-14· cited 90×
• Fox v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-10-19· cited 90×
• Purvis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-06-07· cited 78×
• Clark v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2004-05-19· cited 65×
• Tyler v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2009-03-31· cited 42×
• Debro v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-01-27· cited 26×
• Weis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-04-20· cited 23×
• M.T. v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-05-07· cited 22×
• Harris v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-03-27· cited 21×
• McGriff v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-09-07· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-08-31· cited 17×
• Christopher C. Norris v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-04-26· cited 17×
• Nunley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-11-16· cited 16×
• Dee Ward v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2016-02-19· cited 16×
• Taylor v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-02-03· cited 14×
• D.G.B. v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-08-31· cited 13×
• Coltan A. Perryman v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-07-07· cited 12×
• Anderson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-08-26· cited 11×
• Lewis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-08-30· cited 11×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Idaho v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-27· cited 2,081×
• Brookhart v. Janis
  Supreme Court· 1966-04-18· cited 1,130×
• Modesitt v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-09-26· cited 151×
• Brady v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-06-28· cited 128×
• Miller v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-12-29· cited 104×
• Sumpter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1974-01-22· cited 63×
• Fox v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-04-30· cited 62×
• State v. Owings
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-10-29· cited 52×
• United States v. Bobby Cook and Laurell Cook
  Seventh Circuit· 1976-06-01· cited 41×
• Webb v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-07-21· cited 22×
• Shoup v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-05-08· cited 21×
• Trout v. Trout
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-08-23· cited 21×
• Miller v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-12-07· cited 18×
• Arndt v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-11-09· cited 14×