State v. Allewalt’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 district · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably State v. Alberico (1993), State v. Alberico (1993)
2 district · 96 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 Frye v. United States · United States v. Mazurie · Dorsey v. State · 36 Cal. 3d 236 - People v. Bledsoe · Reed v. State
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the existence of the disorder coupled with the absence of any triggering trauma, other than the evidence of [the charged crime], [to] aid the jury[.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] jury, with the assistance of a competent expert, can understand that a diagnosis of PTSD tends to negate consent where the history, as reviewed by the expert, reflects no other trauma which in the expert's opinion could produce that medically recognized disorder. By requiring a full explanation on direct, by allowing liberal cross-examination, and by proper jury instructions, all of which occurred in this case, the trial court can prevent any impression that the psychiatric opinion is like a chemical reaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“never used the term 'rape trauma syndrome, and avoiding that terminology is more than cosmetic. The concern with unfair prejudice is largely reduced when the terminology does not equate the syndrome exclusively with rape.”
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.