State v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2009
8 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 State v. DeBarros · State v. Izzi
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe that evidence of a complaining witness’ prior allegations of sexual assault may be admitted ‘to challenge effectively the complaining witness’s credibility,’ even if the allegations were not proven false or withdrawn. * * * we have often stated that the credibility of a witness is always in issue. The defendant’s inability to prove that prior accusations were in fact false does not make the fact that prior accusations were made irrelevant. By not allowing defendant the opportunity to challenge [the witness’s] credibility, the trial justice inappropriately infringed on defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights of confrontation and effective cross-examination.” Id. (requiring cross-examination and admission of DCYF records of alleged victim’s prior unproven but never recanted sexual abuse allegations against different men).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Manning
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.