513 So. 2d 449 - State v. Patrick’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2017
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Schmerber v. State of California · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 437 So. 2d 276 - State v. Sherer · 419 So. 2d 939 - State v. Stucke
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.
“Psychologists explained that a child-victim of parental incest exhibits abnormal behavior traits and suffers great psychological harm. The testimony of the child is usually necessary to convict a father of the heinous crime of incest. Expert psychological testimony aids and enlightens the jury in this area of behavioral traits, an area which is beyond the understanding of the average lay person, and assists the jury in its search for truth. Psychological expert testimony is admissible here because it assisted the jury's understanding of the behavior of a child who may have been the victim of parental incest, an area requiring "specialized knowledge." The facts of this case are inapposite to cases where the admissibility of expert testimony in an area of "common knowledge," such as eye-witness identification, is at issue. (citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Steines
How this case has been treated — in progress
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