State v. Shaw

How courts have described this case

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

• holding statements that occurred two or three hours after sexual assault were excited utterances because declarant’s hysterical condition was caused by assault
• holding court did not abuse discretion in admitting testimony from friends of sexual assault complainant that her behavior and personality changed after assault where defendant claimed testimony was too remote to be relevant
• noting presumption that jury abides by the instructions of the trial court
• victim’s friends testimony comparing the victim’s behavior before and after the date of the rape was material to whether the rape occurred
• “[C]ontemporaneousness with the exciting event is not required for statements to be admissible as excited utterances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Dickerson v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 72×
• Street v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1992-01-15· cited 40×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1992-05-22· cited 39×
• Mobbs v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-09-28· cited 31×
• State v. Larose
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-09-02· cited 25×
• State v. Dunbar
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-08-25· cited 24×
• In Re Estate of Peters
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2000-10-20· cited 23×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2008-05-16· cited 22×
• Ronald Leroy King v. The State of Wyoming
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2023-04-21· cited 19×
• Pirdair v. Medical Center Hosp. of Vermont
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2002-03-29· cited 16×
• State v. Verrinder
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-12-27· cited 15×
• State v. Ives
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1994-05-27· cited 13×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2004-04-08· cited 13×
• Brown v. Roadway Express, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1999-08-24· cited 10×
• State v. Shawn Kelley
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2016-05-20· cited 8×
• State v. Lampman
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-05-02· cited 7×
• State v. Jayveon E. Caballero
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2022-05-20· cited 6×
• State v. Denny
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1992-09-04· cited 4×
• Kitchens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-06-16· cited 3×
• State v. Shaw
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-05-29· cited 3×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
  Supreme Court· 1987-02-24· cited 2,521×
• United States v. Carlton E. Bryant, United States of America v. William E. Turner
  D.C. Circuit· 1971-01-29· cited 450×
• United States v. Singer
  Eighth Circuit· 1983-06-20· cited 79×
• Simmons v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-03-02· cited 56×
• State v. Bishop
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-02-20· cited 46×
• State v. Roy
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1981-09-01· cited 36×
• Poulin v. Ford Motor Co.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1986-05-16· cited 36×
• People v. Alva
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-03-14· cited 36×
• State v. Picknell
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1982-11-02· cited 29×
• State v. Kennison
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-08-07· cited 23×
• State v. Connolly
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1975-12-02· cited 19×
• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1976-02-04· cited 17×
• State v. Bevins
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1981-11-10· cited 16×
• Lewis v. Gagne
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1962-11-07· cited 16×
• State v. Bonilla
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1984-05-18· cited 13×
• State v. Covell
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1982-11-02· cited 12×
• State v. Connarn
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-04-08· cited 11×
• Collette v. Bousley
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1982-06-16· cited 10×
• State v. Solomon
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1984-03-23· cited 7×