342 So. 2d 170 - State v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably State v. Prestridge (1981), State v. Herrin (1990)
39 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 337 So. 2d 1177 - State v. Marks · 315 So. 2d 675 - State v. Carlisle · State v. Findley · Selman v. Louisiana · 340 So. 2d 180 - State v. Lee
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Understanding, and not age, must determine whether any person tendered as a witness shall be sworn; but no child less than twelve years of age shall, over the objection either of the district attorney or of the defendant, be sworn as a witness, until the court is satisfied, after examination, that such child has sufficient understanding to be a witness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Res gestae are events speaking for themselves under the immediate pressure of the occurrence, throught the instructive, impulsive and spontaneous words and acts of the participants, and not the words of the participants when narrating the events. What forms any part of the res gestae is always admissible in evidence.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n the prosecution of sex offenses the better rule is that the original complaint of a young child is admissible when the particular facts and circumstances of the case indicate that the complaint was the product of a shocking episode and not a fabrication.”
2 later decisions 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.