Hudson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 1989
22 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 Wheeler v. United States · Moore v. State · State v. Hope · Rhodes v. State · Crosby v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * if the child-witness, when offered, has capacity to understand the solemnity of an oath and to comprehend the obligation it imposes, and if in the exercise of a sound discretion the trial court determines that at the time the transaction under investigation occurred the proposed witness was able to receive accurate impressions and to retain them to such an extent that when testifying the capacity existed to transmit to fact-finders a reasonable statement of what was seen, felt or heard — then, on appeal, the Court’s action in holding the witness to be qualified will not be reversed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State · Allen v. State““Counsel for appellant cross-examined Pauline in respect of qualification and asked : ‘Did you hold up your hand today when they called the names of all those folks back in the courtroom?’ (2) ‘Do you know what an oath is?’ (3) ‘When (the Circuit Clerk) asked you if you agreed to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, did you know what he was asking?’ To each question a negative answer was given. The little girl asserted that she knew the difference between right and wrong, but did not know what happened to one who did wrong; but she knew about God, and if she did wrong she knew He would do something about it. She later said: ‘He will kill you.’ She knew what the truth was, but when asked to define it replied, ‘I don’t know.’ ” [9]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fields v. State
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.