People v. Dement’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably People v. Vigil (2006), Blecha v. People (1998)
73 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 Chapman v. State of California · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Dutton v. Evans
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by the event or condition”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he burden on the prosecution to produce the declarant for trial or to prove his or her unavailability applies only in the usual case and is subject to an exception when the utility of trial confrontation [is very] remote.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nunez v. People · People v. Schmidt““The confrontation right and hearsay rule stem from the same roots and are designed to protect similar interests based on the premise that testimony is much more reliable when given under oath at trial, where the declarant is subject to cross-examination and the jury may observe his demeanor.””
2 later decisions 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.