State v. Priest’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Sheahan (2003), State v. Timothy Alan Dunlap (2013)
25 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 Strickland v. Washington · Victor v. Nebraska · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · Williamson v. United States · Halas v. Department of Energy
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And I guess the question that may be asked is, why should you believe these witnesses? But for a second I’d like to just turn it around a little bit. Why should you not believe these witnesses? Have any of them in this courtroom on cross-examination been shown to be lying about what they told you? Have any of them been impeached? The answer is no____ What does Joe Taylor gain by lying? Does he get his tools back? Does he get money? Does he get charges dropped? Does he get revenge? What does he have to gain by making up that statement that he told you? We took a man up to the woods. We shot him. It was beautiful. What does he gain? Didn’t gain anything. So, again I submit Joe Taylor was not making up anything. Joe Taylor was not lying. If they’re going to lie, why didn’t they lie better? Why didn’t they get their stories perfectly straight? Why didn’t they get their dates right? Why didn’t they get the exact words perfectly right? Because that’s human nature. People don’t remember things exactly the way they happen all the time. But they do remember the general tenor of what goes on. So if these people came in and said “we don’t remember the date,” I would submit to you that is the — has the ring of truth. That has the ring of truth. There is simply no reason to believe any of these people lied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Felder“[a] statement which was at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant’s pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far tended to subject declarant to civil or criminal liability, or to render invalid a claim by declarant against another, that a reasonable man in declarant’s position would not have made the statement unless declarant believed it to be true. A statement tending to expose the declarant to criminal liability and offered to exculpate the accused is not admissible unless corroborating circumstances clearly indicate the trustworthiness of the statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Meister
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.