State v. Hulbert’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Patterson v. State (1999), State v. Steffes (1993)
25 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Arizona v. Youngblood · 49 Cal. 3d 1136 - People v. Stoll · 135 Wis. 2d 1 - State v. Friedrich · State v. Myers · State v. Hansen
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our system of justice vests the jury with the function of evaluating a witness’s credibility. The reason for not allowing this testimony is that a witness’s credibility “is not a ‘fact in issue’ subject to expert opinion.” Such opinions not only replace the jury’s function in determining credibility, but the jury can employ this type of testimony as a direct comment on defendant’s guilt or innocence. Moreover, when an expert comments, directly or indirectly, on a witness’s credibility, the expert is giving his or her scientific certainty stamp of approval on the testimony even though an expert cannot accurately opine when a witness is telling the truth. In our system of justice, it is the jury’s function to determine the credibility of a witness. An abuse- of discretion occurs when a court allows such testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Id. at 332 . The court also found that the evidence was more likely to convey a conclusion about the defendant's guilt rather than assist the jury. The court conceded that the defendant had a right to offer evidence of his own good character to prove that it was unlikely that he committed the crime, but noted that such character evidence is generally related by opinions formed of a defendant before the commission of an offense, whereas this type of character evidence is formed after the offense. The Hulbert court further observed that this was not ordinary character evidence because it came”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To prove a due process violation based on destruction of evidence, the defendant must show (1) a proper defense request for the evidence; (2) that the evidence was material; and (3) that the evidence would have been significantly favorable to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Craig
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.