Clinebell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Boggs (1992), State v. Sullivan (1998)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 · Commonwealth v. Bohannon · State v. Cox · Barrett v. Commonwealth · State v. Anderson
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of the “general reputation ... of the complaining witness’s unchaste character or prior sexual conduct” ... [which is] defined as “any sexual conduct on the part of the complaining witness which took place before the conclusion of the trial, excluding the conduct involved in the offense alleged under this article.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At least in the context of prosecutions of sexual offenses, evidentiary constraints must sometimes yield to a defendant's right of cross-examination. [cit.] Cross-examination is an absolute right guaranteed to a defendant by the confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment and is fundamental to the truth-finding process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a threshold determination [made by the trial court outside the presence of the jury] that a reasonable probability of falsity exists.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morgan v. State · State v. Burns
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.