Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding the forensic interviewer improperly bolstered the child victim’s credibility when testifying the victim reported the assault to the interviewer, and the interviewer found the victim’s statement believable
• holding “[t]he forensic interviewer’s hearsay testimony impermissibly corroborated the [victim’s identification of [the defendant] as the assailant, and the forensic interviewer’s subsequent opinion testimony improperly bolstered the [victim’s credibility”
• stating a forensic interviewer’s opinion that she found the victim’s statement believable “improperly bolstered the [vjictim’s credibility”
• stating the burden in PCR cases is on the applicant to prove the allegations in his application
• finding “[t]he forensic interviewer’s hearsay testimony impermissibly corroborated the [victim’s identification of [the defendant] as the assailant, and the forensic interviewer’s subsequent opinion testimony improperly bolstered the [victim’s credibility”
• finding a forensic interviewer's opinion testimony improperly bolstered the victim's credibility when the forensic interviewer, at the State's invitation, testified that she found the victim's statement \believable\ and stated the victim had no reason \not to be truthful\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Jennings
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-09-19· cited 122×
• State v. Kromah
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-01-23· cited 94×
• State v. McKERLEY
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2012-03-28· cited 36×
• State v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2015-01-07· cited 24×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-03-21· cited 22×
• Briggs v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-10-25· cited 17×
• Tappeiner v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-05-04· cited 15×
• State v. Barrett
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2016-03-23· cited 10×
• Milledge v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-03-14· cited 9×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-03-29· cited 9×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2016-07-20· cited 8×
• Garren v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2018-04-25· cited 5×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2014-12-17· cited 4×
• Vail v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2013-02-20· cited 3×
• Earley v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-10-19· cited 2×
• State v. Portillo
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2014-04-09· cited 2×
• Gibbs v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2016-04-27· cited 1×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2012-02-08· cited 1×
• Smalls v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2016-02-10· cited 1×
• Stone v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-02-08

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-12-04· cited 215×
• Caprood v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2000-01-04· cited 86×
• Jolly v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-05-09· cited 37×
• Dawkins v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-08-13· cited 33×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-06-05· cited 29×
• Rosemond v. Catoe
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2009-06-29· cited 25×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-08-14· cited 25×
• Bannister v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-12-14· cited 21×
• Huggler v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2004-09-07· cited 12×