State v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably State v. Nunn (1989), Kansas Public Employees Retirement System v. Reimer & Koger Associates, Inc. (1997)
32 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 State v. Gainer · State v. Grauerholz · State v. Mills · State v. Watson · State v. Wingett
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Threats, as this case demonstrates, are an effective way to keep child victims from reporting sexual offenses. They are commonplace in the aftermath of a sexual assault on a child. Therefore, the practical effect of construing a threat to a sexually abused child as concealment would be to extend the statute of limitations beyond its stated two-year period in nearly every case of this nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bolinger“[I]t is not the province of this court to fashion exceptions to the statute of limitations; that task is left to the legislature. Statutes of limitation are measures of public policy and are entirely subject to the will of the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bolinger
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.