State v. Guenther’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably State v. Branch (2005), State v. Castagna (2006)
48 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 Davis v. Alaska · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Idaho v. Wright
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“carv[ed] out a narrow exception to the common law rule embodied in N.J.R.E. 608 for the purpose of permitting the jury to consider relevant evidence in clearly defined circumstances that may affect its estimation of the credibility of a key witness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“by a preponderance of the evidence, whether the defendant has proven that a prior accusation charging criminal conduct was made by the victim and whether that accusation was false.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a victim-witness whose credibility was the central issue in the case”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.