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← 160 Vt. 393 - State v. Weeks

State v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
1
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

50 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State v. Kinney (2000), State v. Loveland (1996)

50 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 Wardius v. Oregon · State v. Catsam · State v. Saldana · State v. Bubar · State v. Gallagher

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

  1. “[H]is testimony is a richly detailed roadmap of how he elicited and came to believe the child’s allegations of abuse. From the outset, the jury knew, not only that he had personally examined the victim, but that he had tested her perceptions and credibility, and, that based on his conclusions, he reported the abuse and defendant as the perpetrator to SRS. He not only vouched for the victim’s credibility but staked his professional reputation on it. When Dr. Cunningham was finished testifying, no one could reasonably doubt that he had given his unqualified endorsement to the child’s believability.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The admission of an expert's testimony on the victim's credibility... [has] been condemned in case after case.”
    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.