State v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a “speculative assertion that the records might be relevant for impeachment” is insufficient to justify in camera review (quoting Goldsmith v. State, 651 A.2d 866, 877 (Md. App. 1995))
• summarizing cases in which in camera review was necessary due to other evidence of recantation or inconsistent statements
• distinguishing Jaffee and holding that the victim’s right to assert a privilege may, under certain circumstances, have to yield to the criminal defendant’s constitutional rights at trial
• both citing a majority of states that have decided a victim's privilege may be subordinate to a defendant's constitutional rights
• “We recognize how unlikely it may be that a defendant or defense counsel will know in advance what information is in a patient’s privileged mental health or psychotherapy records. Nonetheless, in order to gain access to any information in those records, the defendant may (and must

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Blackwell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2017-05-31· cited 19×
• State v. O'Neill
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2025-01-30· cited 1×
• State v. Patrick J. Lynch
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2016-07-13
• Westley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-07-02
• John Robert Douglas v. State of Alaska, John Robert Douglas v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2023-03-17

Cites

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

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
  Supreme Court· 1987-02-24· cited 2,521×
• United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 1,404×
• Jaffee v. Redmond
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-13· cited 915×
• People v. Stanaway
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1994-08-29· cited 494×
• State of Iowa v. Christopher Craig Thompson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-23· cited 173×
• Commonwealth v. Dwyer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-12-29· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Barroso
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2003-12-18· cited 92×
• Zaal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-03-16· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-31· cited 79×
• State v. Hummel
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-04-17· cited 67×
• Goldsmith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1995-01-12· cited 58×
• State v. Peseti
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2003-02-27· cited 49×
• State v. Slimskey
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2001-09-04· cited 49×
• Fisher v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1999-09-08· cited 40×
• State v. Blake
  Utah Supreme Court· 2002-11-26· cited 36×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-12-18· cited 34×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-05-04· cited 26×
• In Re Crisis Connection, Inc.
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2011-06-23· cited 25×
• Reynolds v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-12-02· cited 20×