State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
221 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Williams Ford, Inc. v. Hartford Courant Co. (1995), Bunkley v. Commissioner of Correction (1992)
221 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · State v. Evans · Kissinger v. Halperin
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial judge retains discretion to determine whether the jury should receive a special instruction with respect to the credibility of a young witness, and if so, the nature of that instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]n 1848 the common law disability of parties to testify as witnesses was removed by a statute now incorporated in General Statutes § 52-145 [a]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“denigrat[ing] a child as usually less worthy of belief than an adult.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.