State v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
January 1980
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · State v. Mentor · State v. DeLuca · State v. Tehee
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) ‘Present understanding of or intelligence to understand, on instruction, an obligation to speak the truth; (2) mental capacity at the time of the occurrence in question truly to observe and to register such occurrence; (3) memory sufficient to retain an independent recollection of the observations made; and (4) capacity truly to translate into words the memory of such observation.’ 5 Jones’ Commentaries on Evidence, Sec. 2106, p. 3954.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Obie
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.