State v. Starks’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
February 2011
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hildreth v. Key · Burnam v. Chicago Great Western Railroad · State v. Jones · State v. Statler · State v. Bennett
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 7 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.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sanders · State v. Mateo“present understanding of the obligation to speak the truth”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mateo
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.