258 Pa. Super. 140 - Commonwealth v. Payton’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 322 Pa. Super. 249 - Commonwealth v. Bailey (1983), 278 Pa. Super. 581 - Commonwealth v. Short (1980)
25 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 Rosche v. McCoy · Commonwealth v. Myrick · Commonwealth v. Baker · 250 Pa. Super. 202 - Commonwealth v. Mangello · 162 Pa. Super. 490 - Commonwealth v. Allabaugh
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is more to a child’s consciousness of the duty to speak the truth than being able to give a clear example of a lie or to understand the concept of an “oath.” In fact, the trial judge’s opportunity to observe the demeanor, alertness, thoughtfulness, and sincerity of a child witness may be more informative than the answers the child gives to questions such as “What is a lie?” and “What will happen to you if you tell a lie?””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It would be inappropriate to compare this with a situation where the District Attorney tells a witness what answers to give to questions directly related to the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“consciousness of a duty to speak the truth.”
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.