Hopper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2006
13 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Goldstein v. United States · Sidle v. Majors · Lawrence v. State · 172 Ind. App. 397 - Hunter 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Child molesting (IC 35-42-4-3). (2) Battery upon a child (IC 35-42-2-1(2)(B). (3) Kidnapping (IC 35-42-3-2). (4) Confinement (IC 35-42-3-3). (5) Rape (IC 35-42-4-1). (6) Criminal deviate conduct (IC 35-42-4-2). (b) A statement or videotape that: (1) is made by a child who was under ten (10) years of age at the time of the statement or videotape; (2) concerns an act that is a material element of an offense listed in subsection (a) that was allegedly committed against the child; and (3) is not otherwise admissible in evidence under statute or court rule; is admissible in evidence in a criminal action for an offense listed in subsection (a) if the requirements of subsection (c) are met. (c) A statement or videotape described in subsection (b) is admissible in evidence in a criminal action listed in subsection (a) if, after notice to the defendant of a hearing and of his right to be present: (1) the court finds, in a hearing: (A) conducted outside the presence of the jury,; and (B) attended by the child; that the time, content, and circumstances of the statement or videotape provide sufficient indications of reliability; and (2) the child: (A) testifies at the trial; or (B) is found by the court to be unavailable as a witness because: (i) a psychiatrist has certified that the child's participation in the trial would be a traumatic experience for the child; (ii) a physician has certified that the child cannot participate in the trial for medical reasons; or (iii) the court has”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brady v. State · Altmeyer v. State“only if there is corroborative evidence of the act that was allegedly committed against the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller 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.