State v. Hunt

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding trial court decision allowing testimony by a victim who was four years old when testifying to abuse that occurred when she was between two and one-half and three and one-half years of age
• upholding trial court decision allowing testimony by a victim who was four years old when testifying to abuse that occurred when she was between two and one-half and three and one-half years of age
• corroboration requirement protects against fabricated or imagined allegations when defendant is unable to cross-examine child-victim
• corroboration requirement protects against fabricated or imagined allegations when defendant is unable to cross-examine child-victim
• “We therefore believe that a determination of incompetency [at trial] would not necessarily make the [hearsay] statements unreliable.”
• child hearsay statute’s corroboration requirement satisfied by “evidence of sufficient circumstances” that would support logical and reasonable inference that alleged act of abuse occurred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Swan
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-06-22· cited 447×
• Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. Edgar L.
  California Court of Appeal· 1997-12-29· cited 104×
• State v. C.J.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-02-06· cited 94×
• People v. Bowers
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-11-13· cited 61×
• State v. Jones
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-05-04· cited 56×
• State v. Karpenski
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-02-12· cited 56×
• State v. Woods
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-06-30· cited 51×
• State v. Borland
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1990-02-20· cited 45×
• Sampson v. Department of Social & Health Services
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-04-29· cited 31×
• State v. Bishop
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-08-05· cited 26×
• State v. Clark
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-12-30· cited 22×
• Stevens v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-07-16· cited 22×
• State v. Gribble
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-01-28· cited 17×
• State v. Petry
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1988-06-22· cited 10×
• State v. Swanson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-08-01· cited 8×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-02-29· cited 7×
• Beck v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1989-10-04· cited 5×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2001-09-28· cited 2×
• State v. Woods
  Washington Supreme Court· 2005-07-27
• State v. CJ
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-02-06

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• State v. Ryan
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-11-26· cited 344×
• State v. Parris
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-11-24· cited 142×
• State v. Allen
  Washington Supreme Court· 1967-03-09· cited 115×
• City of Bremerton v. Corbett
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-08-21· cited 110×
• State v. Meyer
  Washington Supreme Court· 1951-01-04· cited 108×
• Jenkins v. Snohomish County Public Utility District No. 1
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-01-16· cited 84×
• State v. Hieb
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-10-30· cited 61×
• In Re Dependency of Penelope B.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1985-11-14· cited 52×
• State v. Gitchel
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-09-23· cited 48×
• State v. John Doe
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-05-22· cited 47×
• State v. Slider
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-09-24· cited 33×
• State v. Frey
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-05-06· cited 30×
• State v. Jackson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-12-29· cited 27×
• In re the Dependency & Neglect of C.L.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1986-11-26· cited 25×
• State v. Griffith
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-10-21· cited 22×
• State v. Robinson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1986-07-31· cited 21×
• State v. Jackson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-12-23· cited 18×
• State v. Spronk
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-12-24· cited 15×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-10-12· cited 12×