State v. Allard’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (1997), State v. Treesh (2001)
88 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 Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Witt · Morgan v. Illinois · State v. Moreland · State v. Cook
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the child's ability to receive accurate impressions of fact or to observe acts about which he or she will testify, (2) the child's ability to recollect those impressions or observations, (3) the child's ability to communicate what was observed, (4) the child's understanding of truth and falsity and (5) the child's appreciation of his or her responsibility to be truthful.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every person is competent to be a witness except * * * children under ten years of age, who appear incapable of receiving just impression of the facts and transactions respecting which they are examined, or of relating them truly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[y]ou are not to speculate as to what sentence the Court is actually going to impose or whether the sentences will be run concurrent or consecutive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DePew v. Anderson
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.