State v. Rael’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably State v. Eason (1991), 164 N.C. App. 254 - State v. Bush (2004)
32 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 v. DeLeonardo · State v. Turner · State v. Hicks · State v. Weaver · State v. Fearing
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is no age below which one is incompetent, as a matter of law, to testify." The issue of the competency of a witness to testify rests in the sound discretion of the trial court based upon its observation of the witness. Absent a showing that a trial court's ruling as to competency could not have been the result of a reasoned decision, it will not be disturbed on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[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:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no age below which one is incompetent, as a matter of law, to testify.”
1 later decision 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.