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← 437 N.W.2d 240 - State v. Hoversten

State v. Hoversten’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1993
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Coy v. Iowa · Conner v. State · State v. Brotherton · State v. Coy · State v. Tafoya

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

  1. “had been the victim of horrendous and painful abuse by someone [and] was under treatment for the posttraumatic stress syndrome.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “justified to protect the delicate emotional condition of the child in this traumatic experience of testifying in open court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “a de novo review of the record justifies the trial court's finding that the child needed the protection”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.