State v. Thorne

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “it is permissible to show prior acts of sexual misconduct with the offended female”
• in the trial of cases involving intercourse between the sexes, it is permissible to show prior acts of a defendant’s sexual misconduct against the complaining witness
• corpus delicti of the charged crime of carnal knowledge of an 8-year-old girl requires corroborating evidence of “sexual penetration, however slight”
• conduct admitted as evidence of lustful disposition need not be identical to the charged conduct
• “Such evidence is admitted for the purpose of showing the lustful inclination of the defendant toward the offended female, which in turn makes it more probable that the defendant committed the offense charged.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Camarillo
  Washington Supreme Court· 1990-07-26· cited 730×
• State v. Ray
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-03-21· cited 172×
• State v. Burke
  Washington Supreme Court· 2008-03-13· cited 121×
• State v. Ferguson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-07-28· cited 101×
• State v. Narten
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1965-10-28· cited 60×
• State v. Carver
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-03-19· cited 60×
• State v. Whalon
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1970-01-15· cited 60×
• State v. Martin
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-05-06· cited 41×
• State v. Fullen
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1972-07-24· cited 33×
• State v. Scott
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1992-02-18· cited 31×
• State v. Webb
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-04-30· cited 30×
• State v. Boggs
  Washington Supreme Court· 1972-03-30· cited 29×
• State v. Crossguns
  Washington Supreme Court· 2022-03-10· cited 22×
• State v. Denison
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1995-07-13· cited 20×
• State v. ALLEN S.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1999-12-17· cited 19×
• Breimon v. General Motors Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1973-04-16· cited 18×
• State v. Thompson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1961-08-31· cited 17×
• Horn v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-07-02· cited 17×
• State v. Metcalf
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1975-08-27· cited 16×
• State v. Crawford
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-09-26· cited 16×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wolfle v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 272×
• State v. Goebel
  Washington Supreme Court· 1950-05-13· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Madeiros
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-03-29· cited 133×
• State v. Gay
  Washington Supreme Court· 1914-12-07· cited 50×
• Thorne v. Callahan
  Washington Supreme Court· 1951-08-02· cited 36×
• State v. Slater
  Washington Supreme Court· 1950-05-12· cited 33×
• State v. Winnett
  Washington Supreme Court· 1907-12-16· cited 27×
• State v. Gates
  Washington Supreme Court· 1902-06-26· cited 19×
• State v. Gilmore
  Washington Supreme Court· 1953-05-19· cited 13×
• State v. Clough
  New York Court of General Session of the Peace· 1925-12-23· cited 11×
• State v. Biggs
  Washington Supreme Court· 1910-03-01· cited 10×