State v. Cruz’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2013
18 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 State v. Tinghitella · State v. Dugan · State v. Mulalley · State v. Marquez · State v. Finley
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a prior conviction is allowed to impeach a defendant, then the judge must clearly instruct the jury on the limited use to be made of the prior conviction. The RAJI (5A) instruction is insufficient in the case where the witness is the defendant. The failure to tell the jury that the prior conviction is to be used only to evaluate the defendant’s credibility and not to be considered as evidence of his guilt of the offense charged required reversal of Canedo’s conviction. We emphasized that the danger in the jury’s concluding that the defendant is a bad man and convicting on lesser evidence than would ordinarily be necessary to support a conviction, can be decreased by properly instructing the jury on the limited use of the prior conviction. In the instant case, where the testimony is totally conflicting, the failure to admonish the jury not to consider the appellant’s second degree murder conviction as evidence of appellant’s disposition to commit the assault and possession charges, creates an increased danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turner“If a witness has been convicted of a felony, that conviction does not necessarily mean that you cannot believe his testimony. A witness’s conviction of a felony is one of the circumstances you should consider in determining whether to believe that witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turner“`An offense is lesser included when the greater offense cannot be committed without necessarily committing the lesser offense.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cheramie
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.