State v. Mundon.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that references by prosecutor and witnesses to the complaining witness as \the victim\ were harmless error
• adopting the “collateral estoppel” principle from Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436, 90 S.Ct. 1189, 25 L.Ed.2d 469 (1970)
• trial court on remand should instruct witnesses to refrain from calling complaining witness \victim\ because the term undermines presumption of innocence
• “[U]nless there are good reasons found by the court for permitting otherwise, the court should instruct all counsel that they and their witnesses must refrain from using the term [victim].”
• “. . . unless there are good reasons found by the court for permitting otherwise, the court should instruct all counsel that they and their witnesses must refrain from using the term.”
• \use of the term 'victim' in the limited circumstances of this case was not prejudicial to [the defendant]\ where court sustained an objection to use of the term by a witness but overruled objections to the state's use of the term during the testimony of three police officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Sperou
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2019-06-06· cited 120×
• People v. Horton
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2020-03-05· cited 33×
• State v. Austin
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2018-06-29· cited 30×
• State v. Franks
  Montana Supreme Court· 2014-10-08· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Dorazio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-09-02· cited 12×
• State v. Radue
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2025-03-04· cited 6×
• State v. Spearman.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2013-02-21· cited 4×
• State v. Santiago.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2013-12-20
• State v. Deedy.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2017-12-14
• State v. Stan
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2021-03-30
• State v. Freeman
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2021-12-17
• State v. Borge, Jr.
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2022-09-14
• State v. McQueen
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2022-09-27
• State v. Wilson.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2024-02-07
• Pueblo v. Serrano Morales
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 2018-12-04
• Gary Butler Murray, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-02-24
• State v. K. Sandberg
  Montana Supreme Court· 2026-03-10

Cites

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

• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Michigan v. Long
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 3,763×
• Harris v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-02-24· cited 2,903×
• Huddleston v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-05-02· cited 2,215×
• Dowling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1990-01-17· cited 1,616×
• Minnesota v. Carter
  Supreme Court· 1999-02-23· cited 1,221×
• Arizona v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1995-03-01· cited 885×
• Murdaugh v. Livingston
  Supreme Court· 1998-11-18· cited 766×
• United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 720×
• Pope v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-04· cited 672×
• Sealfon v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-01-12· cited 555×
• One Lot Emerald Cut Stones and One Ring v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-11· cited 544×
• Yeager v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-18· cited 347×
• State v. Santiago
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1971-12-29· cited 256×
• United States v. Stephen Kramer
  Second Circuit· 1961-05-02· cited 197×
• United States v. Patrice Mespoulede, A/K/A \Patrice Fabre\
  Second Circuit· 1979-04-10· cited 116×
• State v. Quitog
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1997-04-28· cited 114×
• State v. Kam
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1988-01-08· cited 78×
• State v. Hussein.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2010-04-21· cited 72×
• State v. Shropshire
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-12-12· cited 70×