State v. Fearing’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably State v. Eason (1991), State v. DeLeonardo (1986)
70 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 Ohio v. Roberts · State v. Smith · State v. Turner · State v. Sills · State v. Jones
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Disqualification of witness in general. — A person is disqualified to testify as a witness when the court determines that he is (1) incapable of expressing himself concerning the matter as to be understood, either directly or through interpretation by one who can understand him, or (2) incapable of understanding the duty of a witness to tell the truth.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(A) Has proper notice been given? (B) Is the hearsay not specifically covered elsewhere? (C) Is the statement trustworthy? (D) Is the statement material? (E) Is the statement more probative on the issue than any other evidence which the proponent can procure through reasonable efforts? (F) Will the interests of justice be best served by admission?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the witness is available to testify at trial, the `necessity' of admitting his or her statements through the testimony of a `hearsay' witness very often is greatly diminished if not obviated altogether.”
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.