State v. Ogilvie’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably State v. Risdal (1987), State v. Brown (1983)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Ex Rel. Pope v. Superior Court · 13 Wash. App. 71 - State v. Geer · McLean v. United States · State v. Oppedal · Long v. Brewer
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Qne purpose of rape shield laws is to protect the privacy of victims. Another is to encourage the reporting and prosecuting of sex offenses. [[Image here]] A third reason is to prevent time-consuming and distracting inquiry into collateral matters. [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clarke“(2) Excited utterance. A statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by the event or condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen witnesses testify to the victim's complaint of the act, the testimony is not hearsay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roden v. Solem
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.