29 Cal. App. 4th 1772 - People v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably 11 Cal. 4th 434 - People v. Martinez (1995), Ellis v. United States (2002)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Maryland v. Craig · Coy v. Iowa · 2 Cal. 3d 118 - People v. Marsden · 43 Cal. 3d 600 - People v. Bravo · 54 Cal. 3d 411 - People v. Webster
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are regularly called upon to make tough decisions about how to afford criminal defendants the full measure of procedural protections to which they are entitled under the confrontation clause, without unduly traumatizing victim witnesses whose contributions to the truth-seeking process are so vital.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Arredondo“'resulted in only the most minimal interference with appellant's right to confront his accuser' " and was "justified by the state's interest in protecting the child witness and obtaining accurate testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Arredondo“When the victim witness is a young child, the risks of damage to both the witness and the truth-seeking function can be especially great.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Arredondo
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.