State v. Whittaker

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that erroneously admitting “graphic” testimony that the defendant committed a “brutal and sadistic assault” to be error that was not harmless
• “five-year-old sexual assault committed in a somewhat similar manner on another person, does not constitute evidence of a plan to commit an assault on the victim here”
• five-year-old sexual assault committed in somewhat similar manner not evidence of plan under Rule 404(b)
• error not harmless when prosecutor drew on similarities between prior incident and charged offense in closing argument
• discussing the requirements for a common plan under Rule 404(b)
• identifying requirements for admission of prior bad acts evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. DeJesus
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2008-08-19· cited 196×
• Fitzgerald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-12-10· cited 95×
• State v. Bassett
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1995-05-23· cited 44×
• State v. Melcher
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1996-05-08· cited 40×
• State v. McGlew
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1995-05-23· cited 38×
• State v. Kirsch
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1995-06-27· cited 37×
• State v. Hennessey
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1997-07-10· cited 21×
• State v. Kerwin
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1999-12-03· cited 15×
• State v. Castine
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1996-08-15· cited 13×
• State v. Lesnick
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1996-06-06· cited 12×
• State v. Giovanni
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2007-01-17· cited 11×
• State v. Cavaliere
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1995-08-09· cited 10×
• People v. Jones
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2011-08-18· cited 8×
• State v. Cossette
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2004-08-31· cited 8×
• State v. Glodgett
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2002-11-26· cited 5×
• State v. Rouleau
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2024-01-19· cited 5×
• State v. Koehler
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1995-11-28· cited 2×

Cites

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

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• People v. Oliphant
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1976-12-31· cited 235×
• State v. Saltarelli
  Washington Supreme Court· 1982-12-16· cited 227×
• Lovely v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1948-08-10· cited 213×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Robert Pinney
  Third Circuit· 1992-06-22· cited 69×
• Ali v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1987-01-26· cited 59×
• United States v. Alejandro Rubio-Estrada
  First Circuit· 1988-09-15· cited 54×
• United States v. Olgivie O'Brien Williams
  First Circuit· 1993-02-12· cited 51×
• State v. Hill
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1969-02-13· cited 41×
• Carey v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1986-03-07· cited 39×
• United States v. Raymond Hogue
  Tenth Circuit· 1987-08-19· cited 32×
• State v. Ayer
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1992-09-01· cited 30×
• State v. Morrison
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-09-25· cited 27×
• State v. Simonds
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1991-12-31· cited 26×
• State v. Richardson
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1993-12-30· cited 24×
• Velez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-10-07· cited 17×
• State v. Blackey
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1993-04-16· cited 15×
• State v. Hastings
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1993-09-16· cited 13×
• State v. Tarsitano
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1991-11-06· cited 11×
• United States v. William J. Donovan
  First Circuit· 1993-01-13· cited 10×