Berger v. Coon’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably People v. Saiz (2001), Wise Ex Rel. Wise v. Hillman (1981)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 41 Colo. App. 354 - Morrison v. Droll · Coon v. Berger · Levy v. Dwight
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The policy underlying the Colorado Rules of Evidence ... is ... to favor admissibility of [adverse witness] testimony so as to ascertain the truth within the bounds of fairness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“both a prior opportunity by the party against whom the prior testimony is offered to develop the offered testimony, and a similar motive to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lynde Lzp Rienks“attempt to maintain equality between parties at trial through limitations upon admissibility of evidence, thereby promoting justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lynde Lzp Rienks
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.