Hall v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2016
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Doyle v. Ohio · State v. Rimmasch · Souder v. Commonwealth · Niemeyer v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“It was also clearly improper for Ms. Ballou to testify that in her opinion T.H.’s testimony was most likely accurate. Even had Ms. Ballou been a licensed psychologist at the time she examined the children, she would “not have qualif[ied] as an ex pert on the credibility of the child and the reliability of statements she made while she was evaluating her.” Hellstrom, Id. at 614. In Hellstrom , we embraced the view of the Utah Supreme Court on this specific question: “[These witnesses] are not.... experts at discerning the truth. [They] are trained to accept facts provided by their patients, not to act as judges of patient’s credibility.” State v. Rimmasch, 775 P.2d 388 (Utah 1989). Furthermore, the prosecutor emphasized this testimony in his closing argument by stating that, “Miss Ballou, the psychologist who interviewed T.H. on a couple of occasions, told you that what T.H. told you was the truth.” The majority of this court has held that the admission of this type of testimony is reversible error. Hellstrom, Id. Therefore, we reverse on this issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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