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.

• distinguishing questions concerning whether another witness is lying, which are improper, from questions concerning whether the other witness has a motive to lie, which are proper and carry a minimal risk of undue prejudice
• “Juries are presumed to follow instructions.”
• juries are presumed to follow instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of New Hampshire v. Vincent Cooper
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2015-09-22· cited 21×
• State v. Towle
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2015-01-29· cited 15×
• State v. Joseph Kuchman
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2016-04-19· cited 9×
• State v. Rodric R. Reinholz
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2016-04-29· cited 9×
• State v. Abraham DePaula
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2017-06-22· cited 9×
• State v. Gary Gaudreau
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2016-06-17· cited 4×
• State v. Kevin Drown
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2018-06-05· cited 3×
• State v. Doyle
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2024-05-14· cited 1×
• State of New Hampshire v. John Gates
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2020-12-09
• State of New Hampshire v. Timothy R. Verrill
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2022-09-14
• State v. Bradley
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2025-04-16

Cites

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

• Trammel v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1980-02-27· cited 1,217×
• State v. Demery
  Washington Supreme Court· 2001-09-13· cited 270×
• People v. Lopez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2005-07-28· cited 255×
• State v. O'BRIEN
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1993-06-29· cited 231×
• United States v. Adegboyega Akitoye
  First Circuit· 1991-01-10· cited 179×
• State v. Elnicki
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2005-02-18· cited 169×
• Samson Dubria v. G.A. Smith, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-09-11· cited 115×
• Lanham v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-08-25· cited 101×
• In Re Grand Jury Investigation. Appeal of United States of America
  Third Circuit· 1990-10-29· cited 99×
• State v. Boggs
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2008-06-16· cited 91×
• State v. Curtiss
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-05-06· cited 66×
• Keenan v. Gigante
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-05-08· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Kitchen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-05-19· cited 49×
• State v. Martin
  Washington Supreme Court· 1999-05-06· cited 41×
• State v. Nightingale
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2010-07-23· cited 40×
• State v. Stratton
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1989-12-08· cited 40×
• State v. Lopez
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2007-11-09· cited 37×
• Magar v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-02-24· cited 28×
• Sweet v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2010-06-28· cited 28×
• Desclos v. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2006-06-09· cited 27×