467 So. 2d 902 - Cunningham v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

cited by 17 later decisions

states following

April 2016

most recently cited

17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2016

17 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 United States v. Jackson · 84 Mich. App. 108 - People v. Mikula · Williams v. State · 431 So. 2d 468 - Davis v. State · Lee v. State

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

“(h)earsay testimony concerning the details of a complaint of sexual assault is admissible ... if her statement is shown to have been spontaneous and without indication of manufacture, and if any delay in making the complaint is excusable insofar as it is caused by fear and other equally effective circumstances. People v. Mikula, 84 Mich. App. 108, 116 , 269 N.W.2d 195, 199 (1978). (emphasis added)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 485 So. 2d 1047 - Gill v. State · 548 So. 2d 389 - Leatherwood v. State
“[t]he details of the transaction, the name of the party accused, the place where it is said to have occurred, the time of the alleged offense, cannot be proven by a repetition of the words of the prosecutrix.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 485 So. 2d 1047 - Gill v. State · 530 So. 2d 146 - Brock v. State
“Every person who shall forcibly ravish any female of the age of twelve (12) years or upward, ... upon conviction shall be imprisoned for life in the state penitentiary if the jury by its verdict so prescribes; and in cases where the jury fails to fix the penalty at life imprisonment the court shall fix the penalty of imprisonment in the state penitentiary for any term as the court in its discretion, may determine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 582 So. 2d 428 - Luckett v. State · 772 So. 2d 1010 - Adams v. State

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.