State v. Townsend

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that Wisconsin’s “analytical approach has merit when ruling on the admissibility of a child’s previous sexual experiences” to “prevent the jury from assuming that the defendant is responsible for the child’s lack of sexual innocence”
• adopting the five-factor framework but limiting its application to those cases where the court is “ruling on the admissibility of a child’s previous sexual experiences”
• “[T]he rape shield statute encompasses involuntary acts within the meaning of prior sexual conduct . . . .”
• \[T]he rape shield statute encompasses involuntary acts within the meaning of prior sexual conduct....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. STEPHEN F.
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2008-06-23· cited 36×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2006-12-14· cited 34×
• Small v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-10-04· cited 28×
• Vance v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2011-09-29· cited 25×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-02-01· cited 19×
• Thomas Hartley v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2022-11-10· cited 17×
• Joyner v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2009-04-02· cited 14×
• Woodall v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2011-01-27· cited 13×
• People v. Parks
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2009-06-05· cited 12×
• SER Matthew Harvey, Prosecuting Attorney v. Hon. John C. Yoder, Judge
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-10-19· cited 10×
• Jerry W. McKee v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2020-10-15· cited 8×
• Lavoyce Wilder v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2023-10-12· cited 6×
• State v. Kindall
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2013-06-20· cited 5×
• Timothy Justin Joyner v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2021-04-15· cited 5×
• State v. Blandin
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-05-10· cited 4×
• Bean v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2014-02-12· cited 4×
• Burnside v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2017-12-13· cited 4×
• Sweeten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2018-12-05· cited 4×
• State v. Rapp
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2007-01-11· cited 3×
• Berger v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2016-03-17· cited 1×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Pulizzano
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1990-06-12· cited 196×
• People v. Arenda
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-12-23· cited 127×
• State v. Oliver
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-08-04· cited 79×
• Summitt v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-03-26· cited 65×
• Standridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-04-29· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. Ruffen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-05-12· cited 56×
• Polk v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-05-02· cited 55×
• State v. Clarke
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-01-18· cited 45×
• State v. Jacques
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1989-05-26· cited 41×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-06-13· cited 36×
• Wright v. Keffer
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-01-09· cited 34×
• Clay v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-11-07· cited 33×
• Flurry v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1986-12-08· cited 28×
• Ridling v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-04-18· cited 26×
• Graydon v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-09-25· cited 24×
• M.M. v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2002-10-24· cited 20×
• State v. Budis
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1990-09-14· cited 18×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-07-11· cited 15×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-01-15· cited 12×
• Overton v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2003-06-19· cited 6×