State v. Bethune’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably State v. Michaels (1994), State v. Scherzer (1997)
63 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 28 Ill. 2d 464 - The People v. Damen · Weber v. Western Electric Co. · State v. Hill · State v. D.R. · State v. DR
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he jury should not assume that merely because a child does not make a fresh complaint, the child's subsequent charges are contradictory or false. In cases in which a child fails to complain, the court should, if requested by the State, instruct the jury not to consider it evidence weighing against the credibility of the child, because silence is one of the many ways a child may respond to sexual abuse .... Whenever defense counsel or a witness attempts to shed doubt on the child's credibility because of his or her silence after the assault, however, the trial court should issue a curative instruction and instruct the jury not to draw from the silence an adverse inference.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Williams · State v. P.H.“to corroborate the victim's allegations concerning the crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“allow children additional time to make a fresh complaint,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.