State v. Doherty’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2003
13 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 Local 167, International Molders & Allied Workers' Union ex rel. Group of Aggrieved Workers v. Marshall · State v. Denny · Caldwell v. State · State v. Buckner · State v. Wells
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Reputation. In all cases in which evidence of character or a trait of character of a person is admissible, proof may be made by testimony as to reputation. On cross-examination, inquiry is allowable into relevant specific instances of conduct. (b) Specific Instances of Conduct. In cases in which character or a trait of character of a person is an essential element of a charge, claim, or defense, proof may also be made of specific instances of his conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown“(the requirement that reputation testimony be based on comments from a cross-section of a community as opposed to a narrow group or class is intended to assure the reliability of the opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. State“); Caldwell v. State, 276 Md. 612, 615 , 349 A.2d 623, 627 (1976) (holding that, to be admissible, a rape complainant's reputation for chastity must be held”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norton v. State
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.