Piercefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Bowen v. State (1995), Isbell v. State (1996)
35 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 Thomas v. State · Urquhart v. State · Moore v. State · Coleman v. State · Smith 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After ascertaining that the officer had seen Mr. Piercefield’s medical record at the hospital, the prosecutor began a question as follows, “Based on what you have seen, read and heard, and been told —.” The question was interrupted by objection. The trial court, at the bench cautioned that it sounded like the prosecutor was about to elicit hearsay. The question was rephrased, “Do you have any reason to believe that Mr. Piercefield suffered from any sort of head injury that night?” The testimony did not fit the basic definition of hearsay. The witness did not say what was said in the medical records. While it could be inferred that he was basing his opinion in part on the medical records, the statement was not one made by other than the declarant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hampton v. State“A law enforcement officer lawfully present in any place may, in the performance of his duties, stop and detain any person who he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit (1) a felony, or (2) a misdemeanor involving danger or forcible injury to persons or of appropriation of or damage to property, if such action is reasonably necessary either to obtain or verify the identification of the person or to determine the lawfulness of his conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoay v. State“[T]he trial court erred by allowing a witness for the State to give hearsay testimony based on Mr. Piercefield’s medical records. This objection stems from the fact that the trial court allowed Officer Machund to give testimony concerning whether or not he believed Mr. Piercefield had suffered a head injury after he admitted he had looked at the medical records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hampton v. State
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.