State v. Willis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding where rape defendant claims consent, intent is a material issue
• holding where rape defendant claims consent, intent is a material issue
• admitting other act evidence of another rape under similar circumstances where consent is asserted as a defense
• bad act evidence admitted to show common plan or scheme to compel sexual intercourse with retarded women that defendant had control over
• similar fact evidence of sexual encounter with another mentally retarded woman who also was under the influence of the defendant was admissible to rebut consent defense
• evidence that the defendant had sexual intercourse with another mentally retarded patient at the same vocational school was admissible to establish a common design or plan

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Burke
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1987-03-17· cited 123×
• State v. Dokken
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1986-04-02· cited 93×
• State v. Rufener
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1986-09-30· cited 93×
• State v. Moeller
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-05-22· cited 85×
• Grynberg v. Citation Oil & Gas Corp.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1997-10-22· cited 71×
• State v. Reutter
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-09-06· cited 71×
• State v. Champagne
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1988-05-04· cited 70×
• State v. Werner
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1992-03-04· cited 65×
• Gonzales v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-04-12· cited 58×
• State v. Klein
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1989-07-12· cited 54×
• State v. Steele
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1994-01-05· cited 53×
• State v. Waff
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1985-07-31· cited 51×
• State v. Jones
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1994-09-14· cited 49×
• State v. Thomas
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1986-01-22· cited 49×
• State v. Christopherson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1992-03-04· cited 46×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-07-01· cited 44×
• United States v. Palmer
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1991-07-29· cited 42×
• State v. Holloway
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1992-03-11· cited 41×
• State v. Perkins
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1989-07-12· cited 38×
• Roden v. Solem
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1988-11-09· cited 38×

Cites

24 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×
• Vivona v. Conboy
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 351×
• People v. Oliphant
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1976-12-31· cited 235×
• State v. Esposito
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-02-07· cited 159×
• State v. Dace
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1983-04-27· cited 69×
• State v. Faehnrich
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-12-19· cited 59×
• State v. Rose
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1982-10-13· cited 54×
• State v. Houghton
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1978-12-19· cited 51×
• State v. Bittner
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-11-14· cited 46×
• State v. Pedde
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1983-05-18· cited 44×
• People v. Osborn
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-09-26· cited 43×
• State v. West
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 42×
• State v. Havens
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1978-04-12· cited 42×
• State v. Burtts
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1964-12-23· cited 40×
• State v. White Mountain
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1983-04-27· cited 33×
• State v. Ellefson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1980-01-16· cited 26×
• State v. Marshall
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1978-04-12· cited 25×
• Cook v. Rezek
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1980-09-24· cited 21×
• State v. Feyereisen
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-01-25· cited 19×
• State v. Keeling
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1975-10-03· cited 19×