State v. Samuels’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
39
cited by 39 later decisions
2
states following
August 2017
most recently cited
39 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · California v. Green · Carnegie v. United States · State v. Golding · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he point of allowing the testimony of witnesses, whose sole function is to corroborate the testimony of the victim that a complaint was made, is to act preemptively to rebut a jury’s potential residual prejudice against the failure of a victim to complain promptly. State v. Troupe, 237 Conn. [284,] 296, 677 A.2d 917 [(1996)]. The constancy of accusation doctrine was originally meant, and has continued to serve, as a method of counterbalancing a supposed societal bias against late complaining assault victims. Practically speaking, it provided a means to verify complaints made between the time of the assault and the time of the official complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although the defendant frames the appellate issue as one of a constitutional violation, [the] ultimate conclusion turns on evidentiary grounds. ... It is a fundamental rule of appellate review of evidentiary rulings that if [the] error is not of constitutional dimensions, an appellant has the burden of establishing that there has been an erroneous ruling which was probably harmful to him. ... The relevant inquiry is whether the claimed error of the trial court is likely to have affected the outcome of the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A statement of the declarant's then-existing mental or emotional condition, including a statement indicating a present intention to do a particular act in the immediate future, provided that the statement is a natural expression of the condition and is not a statement of memory or belief to prove the fact remembered or believed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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