State v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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

1. “As in Inadi , it is not at all clear that it was in the interests of the defendant that the de-clarant be called by either side. It may well have been better for the defendant to go to the jury and challenge the ambiguity of the child's statements (when she said that the abuse occurred in defendant’s house but would not say who did it) than to have the child called and possibly testify in court that it was defendant who did it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Larson

2. “Statements made for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment and describing medical history, or past or present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof insofar as reasonably pertinent to diagnosis or treatment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Robinson

3. “that a defendant who wants to cross-examine an available child witness whose extrajudicial statements are being used by the state should not be compelled to call the child as a witness if the defendant would prefer that the state call the witness,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Larson