State v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably MEDICAL MUTUAL LIABILITY INS. SOC. OF MARYLAND v. Evans (1993), Ryan v. State (1999)
2 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 12 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“little likelihood that the error affected the verdict.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the danger of unfair prejudice to defendant from the unwarranted inference that, because defendant engaged in acts that sexual child abusers engage in, she, too, is a sexual child abuser is simply too great”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Henley · Perez v. State“That child abusers use these techniques has no bearing on whether a person who does these things is a child abuser.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Henley · State v. Sena
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.