State v. Younger’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 112 N.C. App. 280 - State v. Najewicz (1993), State v. Burns (1982)
57 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 State v. Banks · State v. Fortney · State v. Cope · State v. . Williams
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [Rape Shield Statute] was not intended to act as a barricade against evidence which is used to prove issues common to all trials.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“`to protect the witness from unnecessary humiliation and embarrassment while shielding the jury from unwanted prejudice that might result from evidence of sexual conduct which has little relevance to the case and has a low probative value.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the sole gauge for determining whether evidence is admissible in rape cases.”
5 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.