State v. Carver

How courts have described this case

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

• one purpose of the rape shield statute is to “eliminate prejudicial evidence of prior sexual conduct of a victim”
• evidence of past sexual abuse of minors should have been admitted to rebut the inference that they would not know about such sexual acts unless they had experienced them with defendant
• evidence of past sexual abuse of minors should have been admitted to rebut the inference that they would not know about such sexual acts unless they had experienced them with defendant
• \The State need not fix a precise time for the commission of the offense when it cannot intelligently do so.\
• rape shield did not apply where “the evidence sought to be admitted here was prior sexual abuse, not misconduct, of a victim”
• evidence that child victims were victims of prior sexual abuse was “extremely relevant to defendant’s defense, and its exclusion unfairly curtailed defendant’s ability to present a logical explanation for the victims’ testimony”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clinton K. Lajoie v. S. Frank Thompson, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary, No. 98-35919
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-06-23· cited 87×
• State v. Oliver
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-08-04· cited 79×
• People v. Aldrich
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1992-08-13· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Ruffen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-05-12· cited 56×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1992-07-22· cited 52×
• State v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-05-12· cited 50×
• State v. Kilgore
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2001-07-10· cited 44×
• State v. Jacques
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1989-05-26· cited 41×
• State v. Posey
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-09-20· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-16· cited 34×
• State v. Horton
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-05-20· cited 31×
• State v. Harris
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-11-18· cited 30×
• State v. Young
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-07-08· cited 30×
• State v. Dickenson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-06-22· cited 24×
• State v. Holland
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1995-04-04· cited 23×
• State v. Bailey
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-07-20· cited 22×
• Woodruff v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-01-13· cited 19×
• State v. Lavery
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1993-08-13· cited 14×
• State v. Hancock
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-01-26· cited 13×
• State v. Grovenstein
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2000-04-24· cited 9×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Hudlow
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-02-24· cited 308×
• State v. Arndt
  Washington Supreme Court· 1976-08-05· cited 245×
• State v. Saltarelli
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-12-16· cited 227×
• State v. Golladay
  Washington Supreme Court· 1970-05-28· cited 154×
• State v. Ferguson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-07-28· cited 101×
• State v. Thorne
  Washington Supreme Court· 1953-08-05· cited 78×
• State v. Cosden
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1977-07-20· cited 40×
• State v. Geer
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1975-03-26· cited 40×
• State v. Simmons
  Washington Supreme Court· 1962-01-12· cited 37×
• State v. Leohner
  Washington Supreme Court· 1966-08-11· cited 24×
• State v. Pitts
  Washington Supreme Court· 1963-06-06· cited 17×
• State v. Long
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1978-05-01· cited 11×