State v. Kuone’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Idaho v. Wright (1990), State v. Francis (2006)
40 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Roemer v. United States · Waldschmidt v. Ranier · In re Disbarment of Levin · United States v. Nick
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The child is alleged to be the victim of the crime or offense; and “(2) the trial judge finds, after a hearing on the matter, that the child is disqualified or unavailable as a witness-, the statement is apparently reliable and the child was not induced to make the statement falsely by use of threats or promises.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a person’s character or a trait of his or her character is in issue, it may be proved by testimony in the form of opinion, evidence of reputation, or evidence of specific instances of the person’s conduct, subject, however, to the limitations of K.S.A. 60-447 and 60-448.” K.S.A. 60-446. “Subject to K.S.A. 60-448 when a trait of a person’s character is relevant as tending to prove conduct on a specified occasion, such trait may be proved in the same manner as provided by K.S.A. 60-446, except that (a) evidence of specific instances of conduct other than evidence of conviction of a crime which tends to prove the trait to be bad shall be inadmissible, and (b) in a criminal action evidence of a trait of an accused’s character as tending to prove guilt or innocence of the offense charged, (i) may not be excluded by the judge under K.S.A. 60-445 if offered by the accused to prove innocence, and (ii) if offered by the prosecution to prove guilt, may be admitted only after the accused has introduced evidence of his or her good character.” K.S.A. 60-447.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) the probability of psychological injury as a result of testifying, (2) the degree of anticipated injury, (3) the expected duration of the injury, and (4) whether the expected psychological injury is substantially greater than the reaction of the average victim of a rape, kidnapping, or other violent act. Other factors may also be relevant.” 243 Kan. 218 , Syl. ¶ 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Eaton
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.