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← 527 N.E.2d 183 - Couch v. State

Couch v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2005
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Moore v. State · Serrano v. State · Baker 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Absent some form of waiver or stipulation by the parties, the results of polygraph examinations administered to witnesses or parties are not competent evidence in criminal prosecutions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “A defendant is prohibited from stating he offered to take a polygraph test and the State is equally prohibited from referring to such a test.”
    1 later decision 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.