State v. Slater’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (2008), State v. Simpson (2008)
96 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Crawford v. Washington · Ohio v. Roberts · Davis v. Washington · 126 S. Ct. 2916 - Credit Suisse First Boston Ltd. v. Billing · Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors v. U.S. Bank N.A.
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“comprehensive definition of testimonial, it is clear that much of the [United States] Supreme Court's and our jurisprudence applying Crawford largely has focused on the reasonable expectation of the declarant that, under the circumstances, his or her words later could be used for prosecutorial purposes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]ith respect to the fourth factor, although the amount of time that lapsed between the incident and [the victim's] statement is unclear, the victim still visibly was shaken and appeared to be making the statement as a cry for help.... The victim's emotional state, therefore, indicates that her statement was made under circumstances that had negated the opportunity for deliberation or fabrication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] statement made for purposes of obtaining medical treatment or advice pertaining thereto and describing medical history or past or present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof, insofar as reasonably pertinent to the medical treatment or advice.”
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.