State v. John Discola

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the unwanted grabbing of another's buttocks criminally offended community standards of decency, especially given that buttocks are \frequently sexualized in our society\
• abandoning witness certainty as a factor for evaluating reliability
• abandoning witness certainty as a factor for evaluating reliability
• abandoning witness certainty as a factor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Martinez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2020-11-19· cited 93×
• State v. Christopher D. Hale
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2021-03-26· cited 12×
• Small v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2019-06-24· cited 10×
• State v. Red Cloud
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2022-03-23· cited 6×
• Christos Panagiotidis and Hrisanthi Panagiotidis v. Alexander Galanis
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2015-12-18· cited 5×
• State v. Robert E. Stephens
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2020-10-02· cited 4×
• In re A.P., Juvenile
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2020-10-09· cited 4×
• State v. Osman
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2024-03-13· cited 3×
• State v. Jason M. Bockus
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2024-01-19· cited 2×
• In re B.B., Juvenile
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2019-12-06· cited 1×
• State v. Kirby Davis
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2020-03-13· cited 1×
• State v. Liana M. Roy
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2018-07-06
• State v. Kaneaikala.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2019-10-01
• Pitts (Lloyd) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-12-13
• State of Iowa v. Tony E. Doolin
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2020-04-24
• Scott v. State
  Vermont Superior Court· 2020-07-10
• Op24-174_0.pdf

  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2025-06-20
• Patrick v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2025-09-18
• State v. Dean A. Lovejoy
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2026-06-18

Cites

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

• Manson v. Brathwaite
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 5,119×
• People v. Adams
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-06-16· cited 381×
• State v. Ramirez
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-04-23· cited 231×
• State v. Long
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-06-20· cited 164×
• Brodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2005-06-16· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-09· cited 88×
• Penelope Krist v. Eli Lilly and Company v. Abbott Laboratories, Third-Party
  Third Circuit· 1990-03-13· cited 67×
• State v. Kasper
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1979-04-05· cited 63×
• State v. Hunt
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2003-05-30· cited 62×
• United States of America v. Alfonso Deleon
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-04-09· cited 61×
• State v. Cole
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-09-30· cited 61×
• People v. DeSantiago
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2006-04-28· cited 54×
• United States v. Wilson, Sonni
  D.C. Circuit· 2001-02-23· cited 44×
• State v. Hawk
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2000-01-12· cited 43×
• State v. Crannell
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2000-01-28· cited 37×
• People v. Gallegos
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2010-07-15· cited 37×
• United States v. Erwin Pascacio Clotida, United States of America v. Olivia Gertrude Chatten
  First Circuit· 1989-12-20· cited 33×
• State of Maine v. Thomas P. Woodard
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2013-03-26· cited 33×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-06-27· cited 30×
• State v. Squiers
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2006-03-24· cited 22×