Nitz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Salazar (1997), Stephens v. State (1989)
24 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 Rubin v. United States · McDougall v. North Carolina · Brown v. Texas · 101 Wash. 2d 566 - State v. Petrich · United States v. Parodi
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This class of prejudice is particularly great and is particularly susceptible to abuse in cases such as the present one: here, the evidence of guilt consisted almost entirely of the testimony of an unsophisticated and relatively inarticulate child; her prior statements were presented to the jury through a series of articulate adult witnesses, whose ranks included credentialed professionals with extensive experience in dealing with sexual assault cases. It is notable that the prosecution in this case did in fact emphasize this aspect of the prior consistent statements evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stone v. State · Thompson v. State“[I]t can be fundamentally unfair to allow the bulk of the child’s testimony to be presented through a parade of articulate, experienced, adult witnesses who impart to the child’s statements the mature eloquence of adulthood and a sense of their own credibility, while adding nothing of substance but the force of repetition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[There has been a marked trend toward relaxation of the traditional restrictions governing admission of evidence of the victim's first complaint. More recent decisions have recognized the appropriateness, within the reasonable limits of the trial court's discretion, of allowing details of a first complaint of sexual assault to be admitted for the purpose of enabling the jury to obtain a fair understanding of the circumstances under which the complaint was made. - Even jurisdictions that continue to forbid revealing the identity of the assailant recognize that [the] admission of such evidence amounts to harmless error where identity is not contested.”
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.