526 So. 2d 752 - Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

cited by 38 later decisions

states following

November 2016

most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably State v. Townsend (1994), 18 So. 3d 432 - Floyd v. State (2009)

37 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 Ohio v. Roberts · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Kentucky v. Stincer · Mabey v. Official Committee of Equity Security Holders · 103 Wash. 2d 165 - State v. Ryan

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“the trial court should consider (1) whether the child is capable of observing and recollecting facts, (2) whether the child is capable of narrating those facts to the court or to a jury, and (3) whether the child has a moral sense of the obligation to tell the truth.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. JBJ v. State · B.E. v. State
“[A]pparently on the basis of the de minimis competency examination conducted at the beginning of the child's videotaped deposition, the trial court found the child was competent to testify "within the confines of what is reasonable for a four-year-old." This finding does not satisfy the criteria set forth in section 90.605(2), which require the trial court to determine whether "the child understood the duty to tell the truth or the duty not to lie." In interpreting this statute, Florida courts have held that it is the duty of the trial court to determine whether the child was capable of observing, recollecting, and narrating facts, and whether the child had a moral sense of the duty to tell the truth.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 989 So. 2d 1282 - In Re GS · 683 So. 2d 1101 - Simmons v. State
“... a child may testify without taking the oath if the court determines the child understands the duty to tell the truth or the duty not to lie.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Rivet v. State · 989 So. 2d 1282 - In Re GS

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.