State v. Dempsey

How courts have described this case

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

• stating a therapist “improperly vouched for the victim’s credibility by answering affirmatively when asked his opinion as to whether the child’s symptoms of sexual abuse were ‘genuine’ ”
• finding a child sex abuse expert’s testimony improperly vouched for a victim’s credibility when the expert concluded victim was reliable and the expert testified that a very high rate of children who made sex abuse allegations were truthful
• addressing testimony of the minor's treating therapist

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Jennings
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-09-19· cited 122×
• Dempsey v. State
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-03-21· cited 51×
• 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×
• State v. Hill
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2011-07-27· cited 17×
• South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Lisa C.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2008-10-30· cited 13×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2016-07-20· cited 8×
• State v. Perry
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2017-07-26· cited 7×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2014-12-17· cited 4×
• Mangal v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2015-12-30· cited 3×
• State v. Makins
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2019-09-04
• Chappell v. State
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2019-12-11
• State v. Makins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2021-06-23

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Milbradt
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1988-05-17· cited 149×
• State v. Kelsey
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1998-06-08· cited 143×
• State v. Schumpert
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1993-08-23· cited 136×
• State v. Nichols
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-01-20· cited 80×
• State v. Dawkins
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-02-21· cited 69×
• State v. Simpson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1996-12-09· cited 58×
• State v. Byram
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-04-28· cited 57×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-02-08· cited 56×
• State v. Morgan
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-04-07· cited 11×
• State v. Merriman
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1985-11-08· cited 10×