State v. Peters

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a man had taken indecent liberties when he enticed a teenage girl to enter an abandoned house, detained her against her will for about twenty minutes, and placed his hand on her clothed breast
• noting that the forcible sexual abuse statute does not specify whether the touching must be of unclothed body parts, and then proceeding to evaluate the surrounding circumstances to determine that the touching of a clothed breast constituted taking indecent liberties
• “A curative instruction is often mentioned by courts as an important consideration in reviewing the constitutionality of prosecutorial comments.”

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Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Bryant
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1998-08-13· cited 56×
• State v. Cummins
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1992-08-25· cited 35×
• State v. Balfour
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2008-11-14· cited 31×
• State v. Tenney
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1996-03-14· cited 23×
• State v. Hirschi
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2007-07-27· cited 21×
• State v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1995-04-13· cited 20×
• State v. Stevenson
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1994-11-04· cited 20×
• State v. Gibson
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1995-12-07· cited 18×
• State v. Scieszka
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1995-06-15· cited 15×
• State v. Miranda
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2017-11-09· cited 13×
• State v. Longshaw
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1998-06-11· cited 12×
• Butterfield v. Cook
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-08-02· cited 11×
• State v. Reyes
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1993-09-01· cited 6×
• State v. Jadama
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2010-04-29· cited 6×
• State v. Akok
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2015-04-16· cited 5×
• State v. McDaniel
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2025-08-07· cited 1×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• State v. Bishop
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-02-03· cited 250×
• State v. Tillman
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-12-22· cited 213×
• State v. Rimmasch
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-05-17· cited 202×
• State v. Eldredge
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-02-01· cited 147×
• State v. Bullock
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-10-18· cited 92×
• State v. Dibello
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-08-24· cited 90×
• State v. Gardner
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-01-31· cited 90×
• State v. Wareham
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-03-31· cited 71×
• State v. Troy
  Utah Supreme Court· 1984-08-29· cited 61×
• Provo City Corp. v. Willden
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-01-23· cited 52×
• State v. Speer
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-01-26· cited 52×
• State in Interest of LGW
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-01-22· cited 31×
• State in Interest of JLS
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-04-11· cited 29×
• State v. Kennedy
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-08-08· cited 23×
• State v. Bartley
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-12-20· cited 23×
• State v. Serpente
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1989-02-09· cited 16×
• State v. Bates
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-08-11· cited 15×
• State v. Thatcher
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-06-27· cited 5×