State v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · State v. Anthony · State v. Izzi · State v. Rice
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of a complaining witness's similar accusations of wrongdoing against others may be used to challenge a witness's credibility with respect to the pending charges, regardless of whether those prior accusations ever were proved false.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“establishing the witness's motives or bias in testifying is * * * a key part of the constitutionally protected right to cross-examination,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it may be circumscribed within reasonable parameters of relevance in the exercise of the trial justice's discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.