State v. Budis’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably State v. Harvey (1997), State v. Scherzer (1997)
2 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the court finds that evidence offered by the defendant regarding the sexual conduct of the victim is relevant and highly material and meets the requirements of subsections c. and d. of this section and that the probative value of the evidence offered substantially outweighs its collateral nature or the probability that its admission will create undue prejudice, confusion of the issues, or unwarranted invasion of the privacy of the victim, the court shall enter an order setting forth with specificity what evidence may be introduced and the nature of the questions which shall be permitted, and the reasons why the court finds that such evidence satisfies the standards contained in this section. [ Ibid. ]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`to protect rape victims from excessive cross-examination, thereby encouraging them to report the abuse .... [and to] preserve the integrity of trials....[b]y ensuring that juries will not base their verdicts on prejudice against the victim....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garron · State v. Cuni“depends on clear proof that [the conduct] occurred, that [it is] relevant to a material issue in the case, and that [it is] necessary to a defense.”
4 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.