State v. Waller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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

1. “(1) the prior conviction must be punishable by death or imprisonment for over one year or must involve a crime of dishonesty or false statement; (2) less than ten years must have elapsed between the defendant’s release from confinement for the prior offense and the commencement of the prosecution; (3) the State must give reasonable pretrial written notice of the impeaching conviction; (4) the trial court must find that the impeaching conviction’s probative value outweighs its unfair prejudicial effect on the substantive issues.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Osborne