Reyna v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2012
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 California v. Green · Frye v. United States · 17 Cal. 3d 24 - People v. Kelly · Clark v. State · Reyes v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you're in just as good of a position as I am. Although the law does require that before a witness testifies the witness must be competent. Now, this little witness-obviously, all of you are well aware that children are different. And the Court is going to rule that she will be allowed to testify because of the questions that I have asked. I don't want to accept totally that she is totally competent, obviously, she is very young. You're going to have to be the Judge and I’m going to allow her to testify but it is your responsibility and also your responsibility to determine the weight that you give to her testimony, okay?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. State
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.