Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[While LP. accused Davis of having sex with her, the jury was precluded from hearing that L.P. was having sex with others at age twelve. Such exelusion unfairly bolstered her testimony, inasmuch as the inference arises that, because L.P. was accurate in stating that sexual contact had occurred, as disclosed by the physical examination, she also must have been accurate in stating that Davis was the perpetrator of the charged offenses. This is the type of erroneous inference we sought to prevent from occurring under our holding in Steward. We therefore reject the State's argument that this case differs from the ctrcumstances that were presented in Steward. In this case, as well as in Steward, it was apparent that there could have been another possible source for the acts of molestation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morrison v. State · Turney v. State

2. “(a) In a prosecution for a sex crime, evidence of the past sexual conduct of a victim or witness may not be admitted, except: (1) evidence of the victim’s or of a witness’s past sexual conduct with the defendant: (2) evidence which shows that some person other than the defendant committed the act upon which the prosecution is founded;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McVey v. State