State v. Conner’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. Gendron (1991), State v. Hoskins (2000)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Harris v. New York · Estelle v. Smith · Coleman v. Alabama · Mempa v. Rhay
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe Luce and Allie are based on sound policy considerations. Without defendant’s testimony, a reviewing court cannot properly weigh the probative value of the testimony against the prejudicial impact of the impeachment. This balancing requires a complete record, including defendant’s testimony, the cross-examination and an analysis of the impact of the im peachment evidence on the jury. Furthermore, without defendant’s testimony, the court is left to speculate on review whether the state would have in fact sought to impeach defendant with the prior convictions, and whether the adverse ruling in fact motivated defendant’s decision not to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smyers“substantial rights of the accused may be affected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. McKinney
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.