State v. Stafford’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably State v. Jones (1994), State v. Aguallo (1986)
36 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 Beal v. Franklin · 36 Cal. 3d 236 - People v. Bledsoe · State v. Middleton · State v. Saldana · State v. Wade
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even those few jurisdictions which have shied away from generally admitting statements of present condition have allowed them if made to a physician for purposes of diagnosis and treatment in view of the patient’s strong motivation to be truthful. . . . The same guarantee of trustworthiness extends to statements of past conditions and medical history, made for purposes of diagnosis or treatment. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones“Statements made for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment and describing medical history, or past or present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof insofar as reasonably pertinent to diagnosis or treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones
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.