State v. Boucher’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2021
7 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 United States v. Barrett · United States v. Hoyos · State v. Dechaine · State v. Smith · State v. Priest
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the declarant must be unavailable as a witness; (2) the statement must so far tend to subject the declarant to criminal liability that a reasonable person in [his] position would not have made the statement unless [he] believed it to be true; and (3) the statement must be corroborated by circumstances that “clearly” indicate its trustworthiness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cochran“(1) the time of the declaration and the party to whom it was made; (2) the existence of corroborating evidence in the case; (3) whether the declaration is inherently inconsistent with the accused’s guilt; and (4) whether at the time of the incriminating statement the declarant had any probable motive to falsify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cochran“that in disclosing to third parties the `key element' of his communications to [his ex-wives] [defendant] waived protection as to all communications relating to the incident.”
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.