Pierce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Timberlake v. State (1997), Carpenter v. State (2003)
30 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 Idaho v. Wright · Brookhart v. Janis · Sumpter v. State · Modesitt v. State · Brady 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Considerations in making the reliability determination under [Indiana Code section 35-87-4-6] include the time and cireumstances of the statement, whether there was significant opportunity for coaching, the nature of the questioning, whether there was a motive to fabricate, use of age appropriate terminology, and spontaneity and repetition'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“potentially disorienting physical examination at a doctor's office.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Trujillo v. State · Taylor v. State“available for cross-examination at the [child hearsay] hearing as to the potential for any implantation or cleansing of [the child's] story.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Trujillo v. State · Taylor v. State
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.