State v. Thorpe

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “a parent has a right to use reasonable and timely punishment as may be necessary to correct faults in his/her growing children”
• instruction by trial justice that reasonable doubt is “based on evidence or lack of evidence” conveys the essence of the term “reasonable doubt”
• the privilege is lost “at the point at which a parent ceases to act in good faith and with parental affection and acts immoderately, cruelly, or mercilessly with a malicious desire to inflict pain”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Caruolo
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1987-04-23· cited 112×
• State v. Concannon
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-03-24· cited 65×
• State v. Romano
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-02-21· cited 56×
• State v. Grundy
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1990-11-21· cited 55×
• State v. Ashness
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-06-08· cited 49×
• State v. Long
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1985-02-28· cited 42×
• Newman v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2013-04-18· cited 40×
• Butler v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-18· cited 28×
• State v. Hadrick
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1987-04-06· cited 23×
• State v. Ballard
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-01-20· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Dorvil
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-06-25· cited 22×
• State v. Lambert
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-08-03· cited 19×
• State v. Krushnowski
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-06-13· cited 18×
• State v. Conway
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1983-07-29· cited 16×
• State v. Singleton
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-09-09· cited 14×
• State v. McMahon
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1992-01-08· cited 9×
• Ballard v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-11-19· cited 9×
• State v. Sampson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2011-07-08· cited 8×
• In re Ethan H.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1992-06-25· cited 8×
• Hamilton Ex Rel. Lethem v. Lethem
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2012-02-07· cited 5×

Cites

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

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Holland v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-01-31· cited 3,238×
• Ingraham v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-19· cited 2,975×
• Taylor v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-30· cited 844×
• Richard Dunn v. Everett I. Perrin, Jr., Laurence Black v. Edward Cox
  First Circuit· 1978-02-02· cited 127×
• United States v. George Lawson
  Seventh Circuit· 1974-12-19· cited 115×
• Bowers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-07-13· cited 103×
• Essex County Welfare Board v. Department of Institutions & Agencies
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-19· cited 99×
• State v. McDonald
  Washington Supreme Court· 1977-11-17· cited 65×
• Vaney Russell v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-07-22· cited 64×
• United States v. Darryl K. Wright
  Seventh Circuit· 1976-09-27· cited 61×
• United States v. Sylvester Atkins
  Eighth Circuit· 1973-11-09· cited 58×
• Perrin v. Dunn
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-19· cited 56×
• State v. Robalewski
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-07-28· cited 52×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1972-07-17· cited 48×
• Holland v. United States. Holland v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1954-02-05· cited 47×
• State v. Hunt
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1965-10-05· cited 47×
• United States v. Paul MacDonald
  First Circuit· 1972-05-30· cited 44×
• Carpenter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1947-10-13· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-14· cited 42×