Wheat v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 628 So. 2d 1116 - State v. Foret (1993), State v. Spigarolo (1989)
49 state decisions — followed in 18 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 36 Cal. 3d 236 - People v. Bledsoe · 101 Wash. 2d 566 - State v. Petrich · State v. Moran · State v. Middleton · State v. Lindsey
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training or education may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Newman · Condon v. State“The nature ... of the sexual abuse of children places lay jurors at a disadvantage. Incest is prohibited in all or almost all cultures, and the common experience of the jury may represent a less than adequate foundation for assessing the credibility of a young child who complains of sexual abuse ... By explaining the emotional antecedents of the victim's conduct and the peculiar impact of the crime on other members of the family, an expert can assist the jury in evaluating the credibility of the complainant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““We limit our holding of admissibility of expert testimony, under the guidelines hereafter defined, to cases of intrafamily child sexual abuse. The use of “syndrome” testimony to explain behavior of adult rape victims has not yet received general acceptance and, indeed has been rejected ... in some jurisdictions as not based on a sufficient level of reliability to overcome its jury invasive potential. [Citation omitted]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Redd
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.