State v. Hoskinson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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

1. ““The reason, however, does not fail where outrages are charged upon children of tender age. For such children to make complaints of such abuse to their mothers or others in whom they confide is natural, and testimony that they did so may properly be admitted, in the discretion of the court, in view of the age and intelligence of the child, and the time when and the circumstances under which the complaints were made, having regard to the reason upon which the rule rests.” (p. 188.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Langston

2. ““Some courts have admitted a full relation of the details told by the prosecutrix, but the weight of authority admits only the fact that a complaint was made; it is not permissible to relate the name of the person of whom she complained. ... A probable exception to this rule is where the complaint was made in such immediate relation with and sequence to the act complained of as to be part of the res gestse, but that has no application here.” (p. 188.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McLemore