State v. Simmons

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the evidence of penetration was insufficient where the victim \testified that [the] defendant put the tip of his penis 'on' her labia\
• noting that the jury may have been confused by testimony regarding prior incidents where the defendant did “place his penis' between [the victim’s] outer labial folds” and “penetrated the vaginal canal”
• reversing conviction for rape of a child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Johnson
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-05-19· cited 75×
• State v. Bryant
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1998-08-13· cited 56×
• State v. Johnson
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-08-17· cited 54×
• State v. Cobb
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-05-03· cited 43×
• State v. Johnson
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-03-31· cited 32×
• State v. Pullman
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2013-07-05· cited 32×
• State v. Matsamas
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-03-06· cited 29×
• State v. Cruz
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2016-12-01· cited 24×
• State v. Patterson
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2017-10-19· cited 8×
• State v. Peterson
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2015-05-21· cited 5×
• Shaw v. United States
  D. South Dakota· 1995-06-19· cited 4×
• State v. Heath
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2019-11-21· cited 4×
• State v. Gray
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2015-04-30· cited 3×
• State v. Waldoch
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2016-03-24· cited 2×

Cites

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

• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Hopper v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 715×
• State v. Bishop
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-02-03· cited 250×
• State v. Tillman
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-12-22· cited 213×
• Leigh Furniture and Carpet Co. v. Isom
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-12-10· cited 202×
• State v. Petree
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-02-04· cited 148×
• State v. Baker
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-09-21· cited 130×
• State v. Booker
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-10-25· cited 99×
• State v. McCardell
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-08-27· cited 96×
• State v. Rammel
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-06-27· cited 78×
• State v. Fulton
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-05-28· cited 73×
• Teague v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-01-25· cited 58×
• Sherbert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-01-21· cited 57×
• State v. Egbert
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-09-28· cited 37×
• Rhodes v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1969-12-22· cited 31×
• State v. Cantu
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-01-12· cited 30×
• State v. Moton
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-01-20· cited 29×
• State v. Burnett
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-12-24· cited 17×
• State v. Atkinson
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1973-07-06· cited 14×
• Rhoades v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1973-12-31· cited 12×