State v. Boggs’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Drummond (2006), State v. Craig (2006)
4 federal appellate · 157 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · 59 Ohio St. 2d 14 - State v. Gardner · Commonwealth v. Bohannon · State v. Kamel · Smith 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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f defense counsel inquires of an alleged rape victim as to whether she has made any prior false accusations of rape, and the victim answers no, the trial court would have the discretion to determine whether and to what extent defense counsel can proceed with cross-examination. However, if the alleged victim answers in the affirmative, the trial court would have to conduct an in camera hearing to determine whether sexual activity had been involved. If the trial court determined that the accusations were entirely false (that is, that no sexual activity had been involved) the trial court would then be permitted to exercise its discretion in determining whether to permit defense counsel to proceed with cross-examination of the alleged victim. We therefore hold that where an alleged rape victim admits on cross-examination that she has made a prior false rape accusation, the trial judge shall conduct an in camera hearing to ascertain whether sexual activity was involved and, as a result, would be prohibited by R.C. 2907.02(D), or whether the accusation was totally unfounded and therefore could be inquired into on cross-examination pursuant to Evid.R. 608(B).”
14 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boggs v. Collins · Boggs v. Brigano“of the victim. Because prior false accusations of rape do not constitute”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Statzer · State v. Garn“clearly probative of truthfulness or untruthfulness.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boggs v. Brigano · State v. Garn
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.