State v. Towne

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that admission of non-testifying expert’s opinion through testifying expert’s testimony precluded cross-examination and violated Confrontation Clause
• defendant’s right of confrontation, guaranteed by Vermont Constitution, violated by introduction of the opinion of an expert who was never brought before trier of fact and never cross-examined
• a testifying physician may not act as a mere “conduit” for another physician’s opinion
• Prosecution “highlighted” the hearsay in its closing argument

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Aragon
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2010-02-12· cited 60×
• Walworth County v. THERESE B.
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2003-09-03· cited 46×
• In Re Mecier
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1983-04-05· cited 41×
• State v. Nation
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-03-07· cited 31×
• United States v. Neeley
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1987-09-28· cited 24×
• Davis v. Killu
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2006-02-02· cited 22×
• State v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1985-02-08· cited 21×
• State v. Paquette
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1985-05-24· cited 20×
• State v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1984-12-21· cited 20×
• State v. Chambers
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1984-03-02· cited 19×
• Keus v. Brooks Drug, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1994-08-05· cited 18×
• Bunyak v. Clyde J. Yancey & Sons Dairy, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-16· cited 16×
• Plourde v. Gladstone
  D. Vermont· 2002-03-20· cited 15×
• United States v. Neeley
  U S Air Force Court of Military Review· 1985-11-05· cited 15×
• State v. Riva
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1984-08-10· cited 7×
• Wissell v. Fletcher Allen Health Care, Inc.
  Vermont Superior Court· 2014-05-22

Cites

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

• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• California v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
• Smith v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-01-29· cited 763×
• United States v. Ronald Thomas Bohle
  Seventh Circuit· 1971-06-02· cited 160×
• New York Life Ins. Co. v. Taylor
  D.C. Circuit· 1945-01-10· cited 129×
• United States v. Darrell Eugene Lawson
  Seventh Circuit· 1981-07-09· cited 103×
• State v. Morrill
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1969-04-01· cited 82×
• State v. Kasper
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1979-04-05· cited 63×
• State v. Berard
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1974-02-05· cited 47×
• State v. Camley
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1981-12-03· cited 25×
• Everett v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-08-14· cited 20×
• State v. Mecier
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-02-05· cited 20×
• State v. Blaine
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1975-06-03· cited 19×
• In re P. F.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1974-12-03· cited 19×
• Baldwin v. Gaines
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1917-10-02· cited 18×
• O'KELLY v. State
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1980-03-03· cited 15×
• Cadel v. Sherburne Corp.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-11-05· cited 14×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1981-09-22· cited 12×
• West-Nesbitt, Inc. v. Randall
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1967-12-05· cited 11×
• Lambert v. Fuller
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1973-04-03· cited 8×