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State v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
March 2018
most recently cited

26 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Melnick v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1988), State v. Sosa (1997)

26 state decisions

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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 Breed v. Jones · State v. Hargrove · C & H Construction & Paving Co. v. Citizens Bank · State Ex Rel. Delgado v. Stanley · Barnett v. Cal M, Inc.

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"An irrefutable conclusion from [the] observations [that the procedural rules do not expressly provide for the reopening of transfer hearings] is that the procedural rules do not, and were not intended to cover every eventuality. No citation is necessary to agree that if a rule adopted by the Supreme Court exists, it must be followed. But when there is no rule, we may infer authority from other rules or from general principles. "One reasonable inference applicable to this case arises from the established authority of a court to alter an interlocutory ruling. A transfer of jurisdiction... [to circuit court], however, terminates the jurisdiction of the [juvenile] court.... But the denial of a transfer motion is not final—it simply leaves the case in the [juvenile] court for further proceedings. It is, accordingly, interlocutory.... A court may alter an interlocutory order at any time prior to a judgment concluding the litigation.... The juvenile court has the inherent power to reconsider, by reason of its non-final nature, an order denying a motion to transfer. "As a second basis for reaching this conclusion, we note that none of the usual impediments are present that might prohibit the juvenile court from reconsidering its ruling. "(1) The child does not argue a time bar to the transfer.... The motion to reconsider was ... filed only a few days following the court's denial of transfer and within a few days after the State's discovery of new evidence. "(2) Apart from the fact t”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “An irrefutable conclusion from [the] observations [that the procedural rules do not expressly provide for the reopening of transfer hearings] is that the procedural rules do not, and were not intended to cover every eventuality. No citation is necessary to agree that if a rule adopted by the Supreme Court exists, it must be followed. But when there is no rule, we may infer authority from other rules or from general principles.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “For these reasons also, we hold that district courts must have discretion to reopen transfer hearings for the purpose of reconsidering decisions rendered before new evidence of cause for transfer became available, and before the adjudicatory phases of determination have been reached.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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