State v. Leong’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably State v. Gold (1980), State v. Burke (1987)
2 district · 39 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Pointer v. Texas · Boyd v. United States · Washington v. Texas · Estes v. Texas
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] declaration against interest is a well-recognized exception to the hearsay rule. The requirements for this exception are that the declarant be unavailable; that he had knowledge of the facts concerning the declaration; that it was a declaration against his interest; and that there was no motive to falsify. (Citations omitted.) The rationale for the admission of a declaration against interest is that the declaration is trustworthy and unlikely to be false because one will not make false statements against his interest. (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bennett““The purpose for the order excluding a witness from a courtroom is to prevent him from listening to testimony of other witnesses and then ‘shaping’ or fabricating his testimony accordingly. United States v. Leggett, 326 F.2d 613 (4th Cir. 1964); Witt v. United States, 196 F.2d 285 (9th Cir. 1952); It would appear that this may not be a very sound reason because there are other ways in which testimonies may be ‘shaped’ or fabricated.1””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harkins v. Ikeda“We agree with the California court that the proper recourse against a witness who violates an order excluding witnesses should be by contempt proceeding for such conduct. Also, that such conduct of a witness affects his credibility, but it should not be used to disqualify him as a witness for a defendant in a criminal case because as we stated above an accused has the constitutional right to have witnesses testify in his favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Babcock 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.