Lacey v. People’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * [W] e are not here concerned with the wisdom of a statute which permits showing the conviction of a person for any felony for the limited purpose of affecting the credibility of that person when he testifies as a witness in a criminal proceeding. The General Assembly has resolved the matter. Hence, whether a prior conviction for any felony does in logic and fact detract from the credibility of such a convicted person when he subsequently (perhaps years later) takes the witness stand, and whether a jury does in fact limit its use of such testimony to the witness’ credibility and whether, if not, its use is an injustice, are, as stated by Judge Learned Hand, ‘not open questions for us.’ Pfotzer v. Aqua Systems, 162 F.2d 779 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Neal

2. ““In other words, following sentence a person is convicted upon either a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere, even though there admittedly are differences in general purpose of each of these two pleas.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Brzoticky

3. “[T]he conviction of any person for any felony may be shown for the purpose of affecting the credibility of such witness. (Now CRS 1973 13-90-101)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hubbard v. Wilson