400 So. 2d 471 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
September 1998
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jenkins v. Anderson · Rutledge v. Florida · 393 So. 2d 540 - Tascano v. State · 369 So. 2d 943 - David v. State · 386 So. 2d 538 - Williams v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he established law of this state is that if an infant witness has sufficient intelligence to receive a just impression of the facts about which he or she is to testify and has sufficient capacity to relate them correctly, and appreciates the need to tell the truth, the infant should be permitted to testify.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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