State v. Dutton’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2013
7 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 United States v. Watson · United States v. Dotson · State v. Rickman
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.
““[A] foundation must ... be established before opinion testimony about a witness’s character for truthfulness is admissible. Specifically, before a witness can offer an opinion on another witness’s truthfulness, it must be established that the character witness is ‘sufficiently personally familiar with [the primary witness’s] character to offer an opinion on the subject.’ ... “While ‘[t]he reputation witness must have sufficient acquaintance with the principal witness in his community in order to ensure that the testimony accurately reflects the community’s assessment, ... the opinion witness is not relating community feelings.’ United States v. Watson, 669 F.2d [1374] at 1382 [(11th Cir.1982) ]. Instead, the opinion witness testifies from personal knowledge and relates a personal impression of the primary witness’s character for truthfulness. United States v. Watson, 669 F.2d at 1383. See also Tenn. R. Evid. 602. Therefore, to establish admissibility of opinion testimony, it is necessary to demonstrate ‘that the opinion is rationally based on the perception of the witness and would be helpful to the jury in determining the fact of credibility.’ United States v. Dotson, 799 F.2d 189, 193 (5th Cir. 1986).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyle v. State““The witness must qualify to give an opinion by showing such acquaintance with the defendant, the community in which he [or she] has lived and the circles in which he [or she] has moved, as to speak with authority of the terms in which generally he [or she] is regarded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyle v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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