Litzkuhn v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2003 · most notably Kentucky v. Stincer (1987), Hildreth v. Key (1960)
37 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 52 Cal. App. 765 - People v. Delaney · Carroll v. Beavers · 135 Cal. App. 2d 161 - Bradburn v. Peacock
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The following shall not be witnesses in a civil action: * * * * * =:= “2. Children under ten years of age who appear incapable of receiving just impressions of the facts respecting which they are to testify, or of relating them truly.” § 12-2202 A.R.S.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Perez · State v. Garner“[I]t is the duty of the trial judge who has permitted a child to be sworn as a witness, at any time to change his mind upon due occasion therefor, to remove the child from the stand and to instruct the jury to disregard his testimony”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * In other words, their competency to testify is to be determined, not by their age, but by the degree of their understanding and knowledge. It follows that the child’s youthfulness was not, per se, sufficient to exclude her from the witness stand, as there is no arbitrary age limit under which the testimony of a child is automatically rej ected. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dominguez
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.