People v. Straight’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2018
14 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And ladies and gentlemen, I would suggest to you that that was what was happening on that night in question that the statements made by [the child] at the hospital can be considered by you and even if she hasn't said on the stand what happened as she did yesterday, she just clammed up and said, `I don't remember,' or, `I don't want to say anything,' you can still find that the defendant is guilty merely from the testimony that the mother gave as to the information given to her and to the father as to what she said in the hospital.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Gursky“relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant was under the stress of the excitement caused by the event or condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]here the victim is of tender years the testimony of the details of her complaint may be introduced in corroboration of her evidence... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Gursky
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.