State v. MacDonald

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to hold that an alleged victim’s medical records are put at issue simply because the State elects to proceed with a criminal prosecution
• “essential need” relates to whether the targeted information is unavailable from another source and whether a compelling justification exists for disclosure
• criminal defendant sought sexual assault victim’s medical and mental health records that were relevant to victim’s mental capacity, which was an element of the crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Guay
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2011-09-20· cited 38×
• Petition of State of New Hampshire
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2014-08-29· cited 17×
• Petition of Sanjeev Lath & a.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2017-02-03· cited 8×
• Petition of State of New Hampshire (State of New Hampshire v. Michael Lewandowski)
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2016-08-23· cited 6×
• In Re State
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2011-05-17· cited 1×
• N.C. v. New Hampshire Board of Psychologists New Hampshire Board of Psychologists v. Alethea E. Young, Ph.D.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2016-09-20· cited 1×
• State v. Doyle
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2024-05-14· cited 1×
• State v. Zarella
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2025-05-01

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Gagne
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1992-08-14· cited 70×
• Nelson v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1987-11-09· cited 41×
• Desclos v. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2006-06-09· cited 27×
• State v. Elwell
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1989-12-29· cited 25×
• In re Berg
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2005-10-18· cited 20×
• State v. Kupchun
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1977-05-27· cited 19×
• State v. Laporte
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2008-05-02· cited 13×
• Petition of Dean
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1998-06-16· cited 13×
• State v. Barka
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2004-01-06· cited 12×
• In re Search Warrant for Medical Records of C.T.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2010-05-06· cited 12×
• State v. Amirault
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2003-06-06· cited 11×