524 So. 2d 396 - Lloyd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 718 So. 2d 159 - Hawk v. State (1998), 574 So. 2d 1059 - Nibert v. State (1990)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Wingo v. Wedding
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.
“[T]he established law of this state is that if an infant witness has sufficient intelligence to receive a just impression of the facts about which he or she is to testify and has sufficient capacity to relate them correctly, and appreciates the need to tell the truth, the infant should be permitted to testify.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rivet v. State · Bowman v. State“of testimonial competence of an infant witness is his or her intelligence, rather than his or her age, and, in addition, whether the child possesses a sense of obligation to tell the truth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has sufficient mental capacity and sense of moral obligation to be competent as a witness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.