10 Ohio App. 3d 14 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 116 Wash. 2d 531 - State v. Ray (1991), 46 Ohio App. 3d 152 - State v. Theuring (1988)
35 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · State v. Long · 77 Ill. 2d 193 - People v. Spates · State v. Hill · 47 Ohio App. 2d 221 - State v. Spahr
Most-quoted passages
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“[Defendant contends that “dishonesty,” as used in the rule, is limited to crimen falsi, namely, fraud, perjury and similar offenses. While there is some support for defendant’s position in some federal cases, courts of some states have defined “dishonesty” in a much broader sense so as to include theft offenses. Although there is some suggestion of limitation in the Staff Notes to the rule, it is inconceivable that the drafters of the rule would not have been more precise and used more limiting language, such as crimen falsi or fraud, had such a limitation been intended, rather than using the much broader term “dishonesty.” Clearly and undisputedly, a theft is inherently dishonest. Common sense dictates that stealing is a dishonest act. While dishonesty also includes deceit, it is not limited thereto.... Since a theft offense could be used to impeach under the common law, and in common parlance theft involves dishonesty, we are constrained to the common-sense conclusion that dishonest acts such as receiving stolen property and stealing are included within the meaning of the word “dishonesty,” as used in Evid. R. 609(A)(2).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““(A) General Rule. For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that he has been convicted of a crime shall be admitted if elicited from him or established by public record during cross-examination but only if the crime (1) was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year under the law under which he was convicted, or (2) involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the 'punishment whether based upon state or federal statute or ordinance. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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