State v. Floody’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Williams v. State (1997), State v. Phipps (1992)
54 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Ake v. Oklahoma · Idaho v. Wright · Grady v. Corbin · United Families of America v. Kendrick · Andrijevic v. Kelleran
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As witnesses, children are neither inherently reliable nor inherently unreliable. Each child’s statement must be evaluated on its own merits. Several factors should be considered when assessing reliability. These include: (1) the child’s age and maturity; (2) the nature and duration of the abuse; (3) the relationship of the child to the offender; (4) the coherence of the statement, bearing in mind that young children may sometimes describe incidents in age appropriate language and in a disorganized manner; (5) the child’s capacity to observe, retain, and communicate information; (6) the nature and character of the statement itself, considering the child’s developmental limitations in understanding and describing sexual behavior; (7) any motivation of the child to make a false allegation or a false denial; (8) the child’s susceptibility to suggestion and the integrity of the situation under which the statement was obtained; and (9) all the circumstances under which the statement was made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]lthough an information should be as specific as possible with respect to time, it is not always possible to know with certainty when the offenses occurred; this is especially true in cases where there is a minor victim who does not immediately complain to the authorities; thus, specificity of time is not always required in the information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Darby · State v. Nuzum“An indictment is sufficient if it `contains the elements of the offense charged such that it apprises the defendant with reasonable certainty of the accusations against him, and it must enable him to plead an acquittal of conviction as a bar to future prosecutions for the same offense.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Darby
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.