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← 148 Vt. 459 - State v. Hicks

State v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

61
cited by 61 later decisions
8
states following
September 2013
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 628 So. 2d 1116 - State v. Foret (1993), State v. Spigarolo (1989)

2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions

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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 State v. Catsam · State v. Bubar · State v. Kerr · 348 Pa. Super. 368 - Commonwealth v. Baldwin · State v. Percy

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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The expert did not testify on the complainant’s credibility but addressed only the parameters of reporting, and whether it is common for child victims of sexual abuse to delay telling someone what occurred. “The fact that the jury, if it believes the expert’s testimony, may draw inferences which would tend to bolster the victim’s credibility does not make the evidence inadmissible____ [S]o long as the expert does not render an opinion on the accuracy of the victim’s recitation of facts, his or her general testimony on the dynamics of sexual abuse does not prejudice the jury.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he fact that the jury, if it believes the expert’s testimony, may draw inferences which would tend to bolster the victim’s credibility does not make the evidence inadmissible. So long as the expert does not render an opinion on the accuracy of the victim’s recitation of facts, his or her general testimony on the dynamics of sexual abuse does not prejudice the jury.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “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.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.