State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2015
20 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 Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · 49 Ill. 2d 78 - The PEOPLE v. Glover · Courtesy Sandwich Shop, Inc. v. Port of New York Authority · United States v. Ketchum · Easterday 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts in most states have held that the grant or denial of a motion to compel victims of sex abuse to submit to psychological testing rests within the sound discretion of the trial judge. E.g., People v. Glover, 49 Ill.2d 78 , 273 N.E.2d 367, 370 (1971); Easterday v. State, 254 Ind. 13 , 256 N.E.2d 901, 903 (1970); State v. Boisvert, 119 N.H. 174 , 400 A.2d 48, 51 (1979); Gov't. of Virgin Islands v. Scuito, 623 F.2d 869, 874-75 (3d Cir.1980). Three factors compelled one court to conclude that such tests were justified: (1) the victim's youth, (2) the fact that she had accused other men of having unlawful sexual contact with her, and (3) her admission at trial that those other accusations were false. Easterday, 256 N.E.2d at 903 . Another court, however, recognized that victims of sexual assault have substantial privacy rights, so that there must be compelling reasons to require them to submit to psychiatric examinations. Boisvert, 400 A.2d at 51 . There is nothing in the present case that would lead us to conclude that the Superior Court abused its discretion in denying the Defendant's motion. The victim's age, eleven years at trial, is not noteworthy in itself. There is no presumption whether children under 14 are competent to testify at criminal trials; their competency is to be evaluated at the discretion of the presiding justice. State v. Pomerleau, 363 A.2d 692, 695 (Me. 1976). Nor is there the slightest evidence the victim in this case fabricated charges of gross sexua”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pelletier · Baker v. State
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