State v. Bray’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “More recently, our Court stated: The trial court must also find that the child witness would be traumatized, not by the courtroom generally, but by the presence of the defendant____ Denial of face-to-face confrontation is not needed to further state interest in protecting the child witness from trauma unless it is the presence of the defendant that causes the trauma.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Wilson

2. “A trial court's decision to allow videotaped or closed-circuit testimony is reversible 'only if it is shown that the trial judge abused his discretion in making such a decision. ...'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Johnson

3. “Where there is evidence to support a trial court's ruling, it will not be overturned for an abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Johnson