Ring v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 818 · 1992
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably United States v. Tome (1995), United States v. Gabe (2001)
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Ohio v. Roberts · Idaho v. Wright · White v. Illinois · Ring v. Erickson
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“C.R.’s mother, not C.R., sought the “medical treatment,” and there was no evidence suggesting that at the time of the interview C.R. even knew Dr. Levitt was a doctor. C.R. was three years old at the time. The principal reason why 803(4) is a traditional hearsay exception automatically carrying the indicia-of-reli-ability label is because of the selfish-motive doctrine. This exception is based on the belief that a person seeking medical treatment is unlikely to lie to a doctor she wants to treat her, since it is in her best interest to tell the truth. White [v. Illinois], [502] U.S. at [354]-[58], 112 S.Ct. 736”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the fact that [a child] used terminology typical of a child her age is not particularly helpful”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“particularized guarantees of trustworthiness.”
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.