State v. Gollaher’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2015
14 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 Holbrook v. Flynn · State v. Silvey · State v. Parker · State v. Starks · State v. Seever
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Young children, who are victims of sexual abuse, have great difficulty in recounting to juries the sordid details of their painful experience. Wide latitude should be granted to trial courts so that such victims can recount their experiences without being overwhelmed by crippling emotional strain. Their testimony is often of critical importance since they are often the only occurrence witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A child victim’s out-of-court statements to third parties possess unique strengths and weaknesses and are distinct evidence from the child victim’s trial testimony. State v. Wright, 751 S.W.2d 48, 53 (Mo.banc 1988). Statements admitted under § 491.075 do not improperly bolster a victim’s live testi mony where they are informal and not planned as a substitute for the victim’s testimony. 2 Silvey, 894 S.W.2d at 672 . Such statements, taken as a whole, do not have the effect of allowing the victim to testify twice. Id. The statements are not barred by Seever .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Skipper“"If the visual and aural recording of a verbal or nonverbal statement of a child is admissible under this section and the child testifies at the proceeding, it shall be admissible in addition to the testimony of the child at the proceeding whether or mot it repeats or duplicates the child's testimony." (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bunch
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.