State v. C.J.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 state decisions

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

1. “Admissibility under [RCW 9A.44.120] does not depend on whether the child is competent to take the witness stand, but on whether the comments and circumstances surrounding the statement indicate it is reliable.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 147 Wash. App. 511 - State v. Grogan · State v. Borboa

2. “A statement made by a child when under the age of ten describing any act of sexual contact performed with or on the child by another, describing any attempted act of sexual contact with or on the child by another ... is admissible in evidence in... criminal proceedings ... in the courts of the state of Washington if: (1) The court finds, in a hearing conducted outside the presence of the jury, that the time, content, and circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indicia of reliability; and (2) The child either: (a) Testifies at the proceedings; or (b) Is unavailable as a witness: PROVIDED, That when the child is unavailable as a witness, such statement may be admitted only if there is corroborative evidence of the act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 147 Wash. App. 511 - State v. Grogan

3. “earlier hearsay statements made by the same child when he was even younger. These hearsay declarations from an incompetent witness were used to convict a 13-year-old girl of first degree child molestation. The Court of Appeals saw something wrong with this picture, and so do I. That court concluded the trial court should not have admitted the hearsay statements without first finding that when B.K.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. CJ