State v. Bates

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that zone-of-privacy factor was present when defendant touched victim’s penis on two occasions while living in the victim’s home
• holding that gymnastics teacher abused his position of trust even though the abuse did not take place during the lessons
• stating that a belief that homosexuals are attracted to prepubescent children is “a baseless stereotype,” and evidence of defendant’s sexual orientation was irrelevant to whether he was sexually interested in child victims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Crotts
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2004-12-15· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Baran
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-05-15· cited 28×
• State v. Williams
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2011-11-03· cited 17×
• State v. Blomquist
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 2008-02-29· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Christie
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-07-05· cited 6×
• State v. Bell
  Clermont County Court of Common Pleas· 2008-01-29· cited 6×
• State of Tennessee v. David Boyd Conner, Jr. - Concurring
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-12-05
• State v. Fero
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2008-04-22
• Vangorder v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-06-02

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Idaho v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-27· cited 2,081×
• Sergeant Perry Watkins v. United States Army
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-05-03· cited 256×
• State v. Wahlberg
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-08-08· cited 202×
• State v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-02-13· cited 171×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1985-02-08· cited 133×
• State v. Olkon
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-08-29· cited 113×
• State v. Loebach
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-09-11· cited 110×
• Hott v. Indiana
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-26· cited 107×
• United States v. Christopher Gitcho
  Eighth Circuit· 1979-07-27· cited 104×
• United States v. Luis Albert Gillespie
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-07-22· cited 97×
• State v. Schweppe
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1975-12-26· cited 97×
• State v. Back
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1983-12-09· cited 96×
• State v. Buchanan
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-11-23· cited 79×
• State v. Scruggs
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-03-25· cited 67×
• State v. Cermak
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-05-18· cited 59×
• State v. Lloyd
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-02-24· cited 57×
• State v. Eling
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-08-24· cited 55×
• Fratzke v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1990-01-05· cited 52×
• State v. Rainer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1993-07-16· cited 47×