State v. Howard

How courts have described this case

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

• holding evidence of prior sexual abuse should have been admitted under a rape shield law exception to show source of knowledge because “the average juror would perceive the average twelve-year-old girl as a sexual innocent”
• requiring pretrial hearing prior to admitting evidence of alleged victim's prior sexual activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Brown
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-01-24· cited 225×
• People v. Hackett
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1985-02-01· cited 203×
• State v. Pulizzano
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1990-06-12· cited 196×
• People v. Arenda
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-12-23· cited 127×
• Commonwealth v. Black
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-01-11· cited 102×
• Reid v. New Hampshire
  First Circuit· 1995-06-06· cited 98×
• State v. Cressey
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1993-07-15· cited 94×
• State v. Oliver
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-08-04· cited 79×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-12-04· cited 79×
• People v. LaLone
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1989-03-30· cited 75×
• LaPointe v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-04-25· cited 68×
• Summitt v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-03-26· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Ruffen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-05-12· cited 56×
• Doe v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1981-12-03· cited 53×
• Hale v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2004-05-20· cited 49×
• Winfield v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-03-11· cited 47×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1982-08-23· cited 47×
• State of Minnesota v. Christopher Thomas Wenthe
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-06-24· cited 43×
• State v. Molen
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2010-01-12· cited 39×
• State Of Iowa Vs. Ross Ian Cashen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2010-07-02· cited 35×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• Alford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-02-24· cited 1,352×
• Commonwealth v. Joyce
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-06· cited 136×
• State Ex Rel. Pope v. Superior Court
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1976-02-02· cited 90×
• State v. Staples
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1980-05-05· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Gardner
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-05-03· cited 53×
• Goodrow v. Perrin
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1979-06-27· cited 37×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-08-30· cited 35×
• State v. Johns
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-07-31· cited 32×
• State v. Smagula
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1977-08-29· cited 30×
• State v. Lemire
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1975-09-30· cited 23×
• State v. Forshner
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1861-07-15· cited 9×