Salazar 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 “[w]hen ... the defendant’s right to confront effectively the witnesses against him by exploring their possible bias or prejudice is balanced against a rule based solely on policy grounds, the defendant’s constitutional rights must prevail”
• noting that the confidential marital communications privilege “is meant to protect those communications arising between the partners of a marital relationship that are confidential and not as a privilege for all communications”
• “when conflict is found between the constitutional right of confrontation and the exercise of a privilege based on public policy, the constitutional right must control”
• Sixth Amendment overrides the common law privilege for confidential marital communications where defendant seeks to introduce the testimony of the witness’s wife to the effect that the witness had himself confessed to the crime
• Sixth Amendment right overrides the marital privilege
• guidelines for granting a continuance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Foskey
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-04-18· cited 253×
• Lora v. Board of Education
  E.D. New York· 1977-05-12· cited 104×
• Braham v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-11-10· cited 97×
• People v. Foggy
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-02-11· cited 57×
• United States v. J. Marshall Brown
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-03-05· cited 54×
• State v. Peseti
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2003-02-27· cited 49×
• Greenway v. Heathcott
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2013-02-15· cited 46×
• Burke v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-10-24· cited 46×
• Evans v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1982-05-21· cited 31×
• State v. Williams
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-12-09· cited 30×
• People v. Knight
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-12-12· cited 28×
• Teachers Insurance & Annuity Ass'n of America v. City of Wichita
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1977-01-22· cited 27×
• McKinney v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-11-04· cited 25×
• Salazar v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1977-04-06· cited 22×
• Keel v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-04-18· cited 22×
• Carlson v. BMW Industrial Service, Inc.
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1987-11-10· cited 21×
• Lindley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-03-22· cited 19×
• Nielsen v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-02-06· cited 17×
• Best v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-12-27· cited 14×
• Balentine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-10-17· cited 14×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• Alford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-02-24· cited 1,352×
• Wolfle v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 272×
• People v. Foy
  New York Court of Appeals· 1973-06-07· cited 192×
• Blau v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-01-15· cited 181×
• Jennings v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1967-06-16· cited 180×
• The People v. Solomon
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1962-05-25· cited 149×
• Doe v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-07-09· cited 119×
• Davis v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-07-28· cited 70×
• Sloan v. Atlantic Richfield Company
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-10-15· cited 56×
• Burleson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-12-22· cited 54×
• Klockenbrink v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-07-31· cited 50×
• Mead v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1968-09-23· cited 29×
• Lovelady v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1970-12-16· cited 13×
• People v. Buckey
  California Court of Appeal· 1972-02-24· cited 12×
• Sullivan v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1973-05-04· cited 8×
• People v. Street
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1971-06-18· cited 8×