301 So. 2d 323 - State v. Pace’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 372 So. 2d 1024 - State v. Hatcher (1979), State v. Herrin (1990)
32 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 55 Cal. 2d 328 - People v. Burton · State v. Hills · State v. Reese · State v. Nails · Soto v. Territory of Arizona
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Understanding, and not age, must determine whether any person tendered as a witness shall be sworn; but no child less than twelve years of age shall, over the objection either of the district attorney or of the defendant, be sworn as a witness, until the court is satisfied, after examination, that such child has sufficient understanding to be a witness.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Every witness shall be sworn or affirmed to speak the truth and nothing but the truth."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In prosecutions for sex offenses, the overwhelming weight of authority is that the original complaint of the victim, especially that of a young child, is admissible in evidence. State v. Morgan, La., 296 So.2d 286 (1974); People v. Burton, 55 Cal.2d 328 , 359 P.2d 433 (1961); People v. Bonneau, 323 Mich. 237 , 35 N.W.2d 161 (1948); 65 Am.Jur.2d, Rape, § 76, p. 805; 2 Wharton's Criminal Evidence (Torcia, 13th ed., 1972) § 313, pp. 113-118; McCormick on Evidence (2nd ed., 1972) § 297, p. 709."”
2 later decisions 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.