State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably State v. Silvey (1995), State v. Gallagher (1988)
52 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 Ohio v. Roberts · State v. Seever · State v. Guinan · State v. Williams
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The court finds, in a hearing conducted outside the presence of the jury that the time, content and circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indicia of reliability; and (2) (a) The child testifies at the proceedings; or (b) The child is unavailable as a witness; or (c) The child is otherwise physically available as a witness but the court finds that the significant emotional or psychological trauma would result from testifying ... makes the child unavailable as a witness_””
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walker · State v. Hester“In equal protection claims the first step is to ascertain whether the statutory scheme “operates to the disadvantage of some suspect class or impinges upon a fundamental right explicitly or implicitly protected by the Constitution....” If so, the statutory scheme receives strict judicial scrutiny to ascertain whether the classification is necessary to a compelling state interest. Id. If the classification neither burdens a suspect class, nor impinges upon a fundamental right, the only issue is whether the classification is rationally related to a legitimate state interest. In such a situation the burden is on the person attacking the classification to show that it does not rest upon any reasonable basis, and is purely arbitrary. Under this analysis a classifica tion will be upheld if any state of facts can be reasonably conceived which would justify it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Unlike the evidence in Seever , [the detective’s] testimony was not totally dupli-cative of the victim’s testimony at trial, and as noted previously, out-of-court statements such as those in question are a species of evidence distinct from the declarant’s testimony at trial possessing unique strengths and weaknesses. Further, the procedure followed here did not vary from the procedure utilized when other hearsay exceptions, such as ‘excited utterances,' are involved. We find no plain error in admitting [the detective’s] testimony.” 751 S.W.2d at 53[8].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burch
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.