Hernandez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Maryland v. Craig · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Stutzman v. Board of Education · 536 So. 2d 212 - Glendening v. State · 583 So. 2d 1033 - Wright v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The state has an interest in protecting child victims of sexual or other abuse from the additional trauma of testifying in open court, in defendant's presence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tarrago
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.