State v. Farmer

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A]n excited utterance or spontaneous declaration is admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule under the premise that a person stimulated by the excitement of an event and acting under the influences of that event will lack the reflective capacity essential for fabrication.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Asbury
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-03-20· cited 49×
• State v. Thomas
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-07-15· cited 30×
• State v. Burroughs
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1997-09-29· cited 27×
• State v. Phelps
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-10-11· cited 14×
• State v. Bass
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-06-11· cited 11×
• Miller v. Lambert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-12-14· cited 8×
• State v. Gibson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-12-17· cited 7×
• State v. Farmer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-06-16· cited 6×
• State v. Bell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-06-10· cited 5×
• Mark G. v. Lacy G.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2019-09-09
• State of West Virginia v. Michael C.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2023-04-25
• State of West Virginia v. Robert Kramerage
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2023-09-19
• State of West Virginia v. Daniel Vigil
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2024-06-10
• State of West Virginia v. Victor Lee Thompson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2026-03-12

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Starkey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-05-02· cited 220×
• State v. Williams
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-06-27· cited 134×
• State v. Peyatt
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 130×
• State v. Louk
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-03-25· cited 122×
• State v. Smith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-05-15· cited 74×
• State v. Green
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-11-16· cited 74×
• State v. Maynard
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-03-30· cited 72×
• State Ex Rel. Dandy v. Thompson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1964-02-25· cited 48×
• State v. Young
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 33×
• State v. Pancake
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-09-21· cited 32×
• State v. Jones
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-10-22· cited 18×
• Committee on Legal Ethics v. Boettner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-07-21· cited 18×
• Ward v. Raleigh County Park Board
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1958-11-25· cited 18×
• State v. Ayers
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-04-01· cited 14×
• State v. Ray
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-12-16· cited 11×
• Titus v. Progressive Glass Workers Union
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-03-24· cited 1×