State v. Biezer’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2017
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. Rouse · State v. Williams · State v. Sloan · State v. Seddens · State v. Whitmill
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]n expert’s testimony regarding improper interviewing techniques in a child sex abuse case runs the real risk of commenting on the victim’s credibility, which is clearly impermissible under Missouri law. Additionally, such testimony injects a collateral issue into the case and may confuse and muddle the mission of the jury. [... ] We restate that it is within the trial court’s discretion to allow or exclude expert testimony. The purpose of expert testimony is to provide information that will assist the jury in an area in which they have no expertise. In addition, expert testimony must be relevant to the case at hand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“two types of expert testimony are typically challenged: (1) “profile” testimony which describes behaviors and other characteristics commonly observed in sexual abuse victims; and (2) particularized testimony concerning the alleged victim’s credibility. State v. Williams, 858 S.W.2d 796, 798-799 (Mo. App. E.D. 1993). Although the trial court has great discretion in admitting the former, the latter usurps the province of the jury and, therefore, is inadmissible. Id. In other words, an expert will not be allowed to proffer opinion testimony concerning a particular witness’ credibility. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.