Head v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Yount v. State (1993), Hobgood v. State (2006)
40 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 Lawrence v. State · Reichard v. State · LeMaster v. State · Ross 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In my opinion the child is telling the truth.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ulrich v. State · Rose v. State“Although it is entirely proper for the expert witness to state her opinion as to the general competence of the child witness and the child witness's ability to understand the subject, it was entirely improper for that same witness to review each item of the child's testimony and to specifically vouch for the truthfulness of such testimony. Such testimony was an invasion of the province of the jury in determining what weight they would place upon the child's testimony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“as to whether or not the child is prone to exaggerate or fantasize”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. DeMotte v. State · Rose 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.