Schutz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Roberts v. State (2007), Lopez v. State (2011)
66 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 Kissinger v. Halperin · Matson v. State · Chambers v. Texas · Esquivel v. State · Smith v. Estelle
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an “impaired” witness or declar-ant is expected to testify, expert testimony should be permitted in the offering party’s case-in-chief concerning the ability of the class of persons suffering the “impairment” to distinguish reality from fantasy and to perceive, remember, and relate the kinds of events at issue in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lewis v. State“because it does more than `assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue;' it decides an issue for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Blackwell v. State
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.