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← 412 P3D 79 - State v. Maestas

State v. Maestas’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
6
states following
December 2023
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · Reynolds v. States · Giles v. California · State v. Attaway

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

  1. “[i]t seems almost certain that, in a case involving coercion or threats, a witness who refuses to testify at trial will not testify to the actions procuring his or her unavailability.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It would be nonsensical to require that a witness testify against a defendant in order to establish that the defendant has intimidated the witness into not testifying.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “rarely will a witness who has been persuaded not to testify regarding an underlying crime come forward to testify about the persuasion.”
    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.