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← 380 S.C. 499 - State v. Douglas

State v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

49
cited by 49 later decisions
2
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

49 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Schumpert · State v. Williams · Fields v. J. Haynes Waters Builders, Inc. · State v. Douglas · Baggerly v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

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

  1. “If ... specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “an agreement with each other that [she would] tell [the child] the truth and that [the child would] tell [her] the truth[;] if [they got] past that, if the child [agreed] to do that, [they would] go on.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “never stated she believed [the victim]; she did not even state the [victim] ... agreed to tell her the truth, and she gave no indication concerning [the victim's] veracity.”
    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.