State v. Suttles’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2017
18 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 State v. Carter · State v. Braggs · 11 Smith & H. 325 - Caldwell v. State · State v. Drake · Graham v. McReynolds
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is hardly necessary to elaborate upon the action of the judge in this or any other criminal ease in talking privately with a crucial witness out of the presence of the defendant. If nothing else appeared on this record, we would be constrained to reverse this case. We realize that child abuse cases are sensitive and difficult, but they are criminal trials and must be conducted accordingly. A judge is not permitted to make a private inquiry off the record and act upon the information so ob-tained_ Even in determining the competency of a child to be a witness, the judge should not examine the child outside the presence of the defendant in a criminal case unless the defendant agrees and waives the right to be present....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hart“The line between harmless error and prejudicial error is in direct proportion to the degree of the margin by which the proof exceeds the standard to convict beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall
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.