Powell 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 admitting expert’s testimony that alleged victims tell the truth in 99 percent of child sex abuse cases amounted to plain error
• finding plain error where an expert witness impugned the credibility of the defendant, thereby invading the province of the jury, and where the expert's particular testimony was \crucial” and a \substantial evidentiary factor” in the prosecution’s case
• finding plain error where an expert witness impugned the credibility of the defendant, thereby invading the province of the jury, and where the expert's particular testimony was \crucial\ and a \substantial evidentiary factor\ in the prosecution's case
• admission of expert testimony that 90 percent of child abuse victims were telling the truth was error
• admission of expert testimony that 90 percent of child abuse victims were telling the truth was error
• companion case holding that admitting expert’s testimony that alleged victims tell the truth in 99 percent of child sex abuse cases amounted to plain error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Yount v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-12-08· cited 477×
• Getz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-02-29· cited 204×
• State v. Rimmasch
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-05-17· cited 202×
• State v. Milbradt
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1988-05-17· cited 149×
• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• Kolberg v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2002-08-29· cited 115×
• People v. Julian
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2019-04-29· cited 112×
• Wheat v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-06-11· cited 87×
• United States v. Brooks
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 2007-01-30· cited 81×
• People v. Wilson
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2019-03-27· cited 80×
• State v. Ali
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-06-06· cited 72×
• State v. Williams
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1993-07-27· cited 65×
• Downer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-06-22· cited 61×
• State v. J.Q.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-11-14· cited 52×
• Moorhead v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-03-17· cited 16×
• State v. Floray
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1997-07-07· cited 16×
• Doran v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-04-03· cited 15×
• Re v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-04-13· cited 14×
• Luttrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-28· cited 14×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-05-14· cited 13×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• United States v. Mark Kevin Binder
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-08-22· cited 185×
• Allison v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-03-17· cited 123×
• Wheat v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-06-11· cited 87×
• Fields v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1978-09-29· cited 42×
• Fensterer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-05-08· cited 18×