State v. Schaeffer’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1989
10 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 People v. . O'Sullivan · Commonwealth v. Cleary · Higgins v. . People of the State of N.Y. · State v. Ivins · State v. Rodesky
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The] nearness of the complaint to the occurrence or the remoteness therefrom cannot affect its competency, but only its probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not as confirmatory of the truth or falsity of her evidence, but as affecting the credibility of her testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because the complaint is one of the well recognized indications of the truth or falsity of such a charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.