State v. Catsam’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Alberico (1993), State v. Alberico (1993)
138 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Chapman v. State of California · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Pointer v. Texas · Delaware v. Fensterer
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By testifying first that sufferers of PTSD generally do not fabricate claims of sexual abuse, and then that the complainant suffers from PTSD, her testimony left one clear and unmistakable inference to be drawn: the complainant would not fabricate this allegation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Zabel v. State · State v. Weeks“[t]he unique psychological effects of sexual assault on children place the average juror at a disadvantage in understanding the behavior of the victim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lynds · State v. Wigg
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.