State v. Middleton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 district · 196 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably 36 Cal. 3d 236 - People v. Bledsoe (1984), State v. Spigarolo (1989)
3 district · 196 state decisions — followed in 40 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.
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a witness, expert or otherwise, may not give an opinion on whether he believes a witness is telling the truth.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]ensions unique to the trauma experienced by a child sexually abused by a family member have remained largely unknown to the public.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. J.Q. · State v. Newman
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.