Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 11/8/2001
State v. Dorsey
Citations
- 783 A.2d 947
- 2001 R.I. LEXIS 230
- 2001 WL 1474095
How courts have described this case
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- emphasizing negligible relevance of purported prior rape allegation when the defendant offered no indication of its falsity
- “[E]vidence of a complaining witness’s similar accusations of wrongdoing against others may be used to challenge a witness’s credibility with respect to the pending charges, regardless of whether those prior accusations ever were proved false.”
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Judges: Williams, Lederberg, Bourcier, Flanders, Goldberg
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7 cases in this archive cite this case.
- State v. LynchSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-08-12· cited 102×
- State v. DiefenderferSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-05-08· cited 45×
- State v. DennisSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-03-17· cited 23×
- State v. AlbaneseSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-05-29· cited 17×
- State v. ManningSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-06-26· cited 11×
- State v. LorenzoSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-02-24· cited 2×
- State v. Kunwar ChadhaSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 2021-06-25
Cites
15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Delaware v. Van ArsdallSupreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
- Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
- State v. AnthonySupreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-11-18· cited 81×
- State v. RiceSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 2000-07-07· cited 32×
- State v. BotelhoSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 2000-06-14· cited 29×
- State v. OliveiraSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 1990-06-08· cited 23×
- State v. IzziSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 1975-12-10· cited 21×
- State v. LemonSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-02-04· cited 20×
- State v. VentoSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 1987-12-02· cited 17×
- State v. TexterSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 1991-07-17· cited 17×
- State v. SimpsonSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 1992-04-10· cited 14×
- State v. PettiwaySupreme Court of Rhode Island· 1995-04-12· cited 12×
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-02-17· cited 11×
- State v. WarnerSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 1993-06-15· cited 11×
- State v. ParkerSupreme Court of Rhode Island· 1989-12-01· cited 7×
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