State v. Valentine’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably State v. Hines (1998), State v. Ferguson (2002)
109 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 Davis v. Alaska · Arizona v. Youngblood · Douglas v. Alabama · Greene v. McElroy · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court was within its discretion in considering the videotaped statement to be a classic example of a statement that' suffered from a serious element of self-interest' in which the witness attempted to bury her inconsistent statement with a later consistent one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As a general rule, a witness' prior consistent statements are inadmissible at trial.... Such statements clearly are barred by the hearsay rule if sought to be used to prove the truth of the matters asserted therein ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bennett“Greene's testimony, if believed by the jury, seriously would have undermined Roach's in court testimony identifying the defendant as the shooter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.