State v. CECIL J.’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Crawford v. Commissioner of Correction (2009), State v. Davis (2010)
56 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 · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · Rock v. Arkansas · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prosecutions for sexual assault are governed by special rules of evidence, including § 54-86f. That statute was enacted specifically to bar or limit the use of prior sexual conduct of an alleged victim of a sexual assault because it is such highly prejudicial material.... In enacting § 54-86f, the legislature intended to [protect] the victim's sexual privacy and [shield the victim] from undue harassment, [encourage] reports of sexual assault, and [enable] the victim to testify in court with less fear of embarrassment.... Other policies promoted by the law include avoiding prejudice to the victim, jury confusion and waste of time on collateral matters.... "Thus, to determine whether the [sexual conduct] evidence [at issue] was properly excluded, we must begin our analysis with the relevant language of the rape shield statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e will make every reasonable presumption in favor of upholding the trial court's ruling, and only upset it for a manifest abuse of discretion.... The trial court has wide discretion to determine the relevancy [and admissibility] of evidence.... In order to establish reversible error on an evidentiary impropriety ... the defendant must prove both an abuse of discretion and a harm that resulted from such abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In any prosecution for sexual assault ... no evidence of the sexual conduct of the victim may be admissible unless such evidence is ... (4) otherwise so relevant and material to a critical issue in the case that excluding it would violate the defendant's constitutional rights ... [and] the probative value of the evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect on the victim....”
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.