Shepherd v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding privileged communications between husband and wife under Indiana Code 34-1-15-5 not limited to audible communications between them but include knowledge communicated by acts which would not have been done in the presence of the other but for the marital relationship
• finding privileged communications between husband and wife under Indiana Code 34-1-15-5 not limited to audible communications between them but include knowledge communicated by acts which would not have been done in the presence of the other but for the marital relationship
• an exception to the rule of privilege as to communications between spouses is when 'the offense charged was committed by one against the other
• “Although the statute refers to husbands and wives as being incompetent witnesses, as to communications made to each other, the matter is actually one of privileged communication.” (citation omitted)
• “divorce does not remove the privilége as to confidences which were communicated between the parties during their coverture”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pinkerton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1972-06-06· cited 74×
• Chatman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1975-09-23· cited 69×
• Fowler v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-06-16· cited 68×
• Kindred v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-06-08· cited 67×
• Stevens v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1976-09-24· cited 65×
• Merry v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1975-10-07· cited 63×
• Bergner v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-12-12· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Chiappini
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-07-23· cited 44×
• Teague v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-07-28· cited 43×
• Lane v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-07-12· cited 31×
• Ulibarri v. SUPERIOR CT. CTY. OF COCONINO
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1995-08-22· cited 25×
• State v. Wilson
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-11-02· cited 24×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-06-09· cited 24×
• State v. Christian
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-03-09· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. McBurrows
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-06-01· cited 21×
• Carlyle v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-11-19· cited 20×
• Resnover v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-02-13· cited 18×
• State v. Robinson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-12-21· cited 17×
• Richard v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1974-11-27· cited 17×
• Glover v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-11-02· cited 15×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Clark v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1933-03-13· cited 738×
• United States v. Bob
  Second Circuit· 1939-07-26· cited 57×
• Reading v. Travelers Insurance Co.
  Supreme Court· 1939-10-09· cited 50×
• Beitman v. Hopkins
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1887-01-08· cited 19×
• Perry v. Randall
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1882-05-15· cited 16×
• Doolittle v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1884-02-20· cited 14×
• Brown v. Norton
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1879-11-15· cited 8×