State v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Oscarson (2004), State v. Recor (1988)
2 federal appellate · 72 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 Ohio v. Roberts · California v. Green · Williams v. People of State of New York · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Kentucky v. Stincer
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The unavailability of the declarant is not always required for exceptions to the hearsay rule. This particular exception is narrowly drafted for use only with out-of-court statements, found to be trustworthy, of putative child victims of sexual crimes. In addition, the statutory requirement that the child declarant be available for cross-examination ensures that the defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause are fully protected. Therefore the re-. quirement of [the statute], that the child victim be "available” to testify, does not violate the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Apilando“the internal consistency and detail of the child's story, and the child's affect, intelligence, memory and concern for the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Haner“the time, content and circumstances of the statements provide substantial indicia of trustworthiness.”
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.