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← 2016 MT 48 - State v. Awbery

State v. Awbery’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Michigan v. Lucas · State v. Anderson · State v. Clyde Hayden Sr. · State v. Higley · State v. MacKinnon

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

  1. “ensure a fair trial for the defendant while upholding the compelling interest of the Rape Shield Law in preserving the integrity of the trial and keeping it from becoming a trial of the victim.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “evidence of specific instances of the victim's sexual activity to show the origin of semen, pregnancy, or disease that is at issue in the prosecution.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “require that the defendant's proffered evidence is not merely speculative or unsupported.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.