Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably United States v. Charley (1999), State v. Rimmasch (1989)
6 federal appellate · 62 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 · Arizona v. Youngblood · Kentucky v. Stincer · United States v. Inadi · Cruz v. New York
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in any case where the witness is present for the trial his prior out-of-court statements may be substituted for live testimony as long as there are indicia of reliability of the prior statement.” Johnson, 292 Ark. at 642-43 , 732 S.W.2d at 822 . The court instead held that in most cases unavailability must be demonstrated, but that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Apilando · Smart v. State“The general test for admissibility of expert testimony is whether the testimony will aid the trier of fact in understanding the evidence or in determining a fact issue. Unif.R.Evid. 702; B & J Byers Trucking, Inc. v. Robinson, 281 Ark. 442 , 665 S.W.2d 258 (1984). An important consideration in determining whether the testimony will aid the trier of fact is whether the situation is beyond the trier of fact's ability to understand and draw its own conclusions. B & J Byers Trucking, Inc. v. Robinson, supra . Here, lay jurors were fully competent to determine whether the history given by the victim was consistent with sexual abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drope v. Owens“A statement made by a child when under the age of ten describing any act of sexual contact... is admissible in evidence in dependency . . . and criminal proceedings ... if: (1) The court finds, in a hearing conducted outside the presence of the jury, that the time, content, and circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indicia of reliability; and (2) The child either: (a) Testifies at the proceedings [outside the presence of the jury]; or (b) Is unavailable as a witness; Provided, that when the child is unavailable as a witness, such statement may be admitted only if there is corroborative evidence of the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cogburn v. State
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