State v. Tafoya’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2018
20 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 Rosenberg v. United States · State v. Padilla · United States v. Hiss · United States v. Rosenberg · State v. Ruffino
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.
“was to have been based upon statements and depositions of the children, as well as tapes of their trial testimony. She had never personally observed the demeanor of the children, nor questioned them herself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Branch“determine that the probative value of the testimony was slight, based upon the lack of personal observation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Branch“The trial judge's discretion is necessarily broad for he sits in the arena of litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Branch
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.