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State v. Cawley’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
July 2017
most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Swafford v. State (1991), State v. Orosco (1992)

30 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

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3290

Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Griffin v. United States · Jones v. Helms · 22 Cal. 3d 493 - Scherling v. Superior Court · Richardson Ex Rel. Estate of Richardson v. Carnegie Library Restaurant, 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “When an accused takes the witness stand he is in the same position as any other witness. He is not entitled to have his testimony falsely cloaked with reliability by having his credibility protected against the truth-searching process of cross-examination. * * * * * * If the jury is to be fair and impartial, and if it is to accomplish its purpose of arriving at the truth, then it is entitled to consider all legitimate evidence bearing upon the issues and upon the credibility of all witnesses testifying on these issues.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Trejo
  2. “Generally, an instruction that parallels the language of the statute and contains all essential elements of the crime is sufficient.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Fernandez

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.