State v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
August 1989
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Wraggs · State v. Hastings · State v. Robertson · State v. Sigh · State v. McGrew
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) present understanding of, or intelligence to understand, on instruction, an obligation to speak the truth; (2) sufficient mental capacity at the time of the occurrence to observe and to register such occurrence; (3) memory sufficient to retain an independent recollection of the observations made; and (4) capacity to translate into words the memory of such observations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibson
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.