State v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Jones (1994), State v. Soyars (1992)
50 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Rushen v. Spain · State v. Braswell · State v. Bullard
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant interposed only general objections to the testimony which is the subject of [the appeal and] never requested a specific finding by the trial court as to the witness’ qualifications as an expert ... a finding that the witness is qualified as an expert is implicit in the trial court’s ruling admitting the opinion testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We do not consider the testimony of this witness that the victim answered the test questions in an “honest fashion” to be an expert opinion as to her character or credibility. It was merely a statement of opinion by a trained professional based upon personal knowledge and professional expertise that the test results were reliable because the victim seemed to respond to the questions in an honest fashion: her patient did not attempt to give false responses on a psychological test, thereby skewing the test results and rendering the results unreliable. By this answer Dr. Dew was not saying that she believed the victim to be truthful, but rather that she gave truthful answers to the test questions. The psychologist’s testimony went not to the credibility of the victim but to the reliability of the test itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was not testifying that she believed what the victim told her was true, nor did she give her opinion as to the victim's character for truthfulness in general.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McKoy
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.