Sexton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably State v. Spigarolo (1989), State v. Alberico (1993)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Our weighing of the factors convinces us that Dr. Renfro's testimony was admissible. Though it may not have possessed a high degree of reliability (in the sense that '[t]he behavioral scientific literature conclusively demonstrates that there is no general acceptance of the ability of experts in the field to diagnose a child as having been sexually abused,' id. at 38), it did have a high degree of understandability (in the sense that it was easily explained and not likely to overwhelm the jury). Most significantly, even though its importance to the issue being decided was somewhat high, its necessity was extremely great."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In order to establish a Brady violation, the defendant must prove (1) The prosecution's suppression of evidence; (2) the favorable character of the suppressed evidence for the defense; (3) the materiality of the suppressed evidence. Monroe v. Blackburn , 607 F.2d 148 , 150 (5th Cir. 1979) cert. denied, 446 U.S. 957 [, 100 S.Ct. 2929 , 64 L.Ed.2d 816 ] (1980). See Moore v. Illinois , 408 U.S. 786 , 92 S.Ct. 2562 , 33 L.Ed.2d 706 (1972); Killough v. State , 438 So.2d 311 , 316 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982), rev'd on other grounds, Ex parte Killough , 438 So.2d 333 (Ala. 1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘[WJhen a question is asked of a witness calling for inadmissible matter, it is mandatory upon the party against whom it is offered to object after the question but before the answer.’ C. Gamble, McElroy’s Alabama Evidence § 426.01(3) at 793-94. An objection not made until after a responsive answer is given comes too late. Williams v. State, 383 So.2d 547, 559 (Ala.Cr.App.1979), aff'd, Ex parte Williams, 383 So.2d 564 (Ala.), cert. denied, Williams v. Alabama, 449 U.S. 995 , 101 S.Ct. 534 , 66 L.Ed.2d 293 (1980).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Johnson v. L.O.
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.