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← 439 SO2D 433 - State v. Foy

State v. Foy’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

43 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 459 So. 2d 31 - State v. Richardson (1984), 493 So. 2d 766 - State v. Jacobs (1986)

43 state decisions

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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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Shapiro · State v. Edwards · 422 So. 2d 123 - State v. Graham · 412 So. 2d 507 - State v. Humphrey

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

  1. “Understanding, and not age, must determine whether any person tendered as a witness shall be sworn; but no child less than twelve years of age shall, over the objection either of the district attorney or of the defendant, be sworn as a witness, until the court is satisfied, after examination, that such child has sufficient understanding to be a witness.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Stukes · State v. Nash
  2. “the child possessed sufficient understanding of the trial, the questions, the difference between truth and lies, and her ability to recall the events about which she testified.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 647 So. 2d 428 - State v. Allen
  3. “to have given the requested special charges on the identification issue would have improperly pinpointed this issue out of proportion with others in the case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 588 So. 2d 116 - State v. Velez

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.