Ramaker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Grillot v. State (2003), Barnes v. State (2001)
85 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 United States v. Scheffer · Pyle v. State · Jones v. State · Ayers v. State · Greene v. State
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Arkansas Code Annotated § 12-12-704 (Repl. 1999) provides that the results of a polygraph exam “shall be inadmissible in all courts in this State.” The only exception to this rule occurs when both parties stipulate to the admissibility of the polygraph results in writing. Foster v. State, 285 Ark. 363 , 687 S.W.2d 829 (1985). The United States Supreme Court has held that because polygraph results only serve to bolster or attack a witness’s veracity, rules barring their admissibility do not abridge an accused’s right to present a defense. See United States v. Scheffer, 523 U.S. 303 , 118 S.Ct. 1261 , 140 L.Ed.2d 413 (1998). The prohibition against the admission of polygraph results extends to a witness’s willingness or reluctance to be examined as evidence of consciousness of innocence or guilt. See Wingfield, supra. This rule, like the bar against polygraph results, only prevented the appellant from bolstering his own credibility. He was still able to introduce his version of the shooting through his custodial statements and through the testimony of his expert, who corroborated his claim that a malfunction caused the gun to be ready to fire. As such, the appellant cannot show the prejudice upon his right to present a defense. We, therefore, find no error by the trial court on this point.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rollins v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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