State v. Cruz’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Colon (2004), State v. Ceballos (2003)
78 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Johnson v. Righetti · Peters v. Kiff
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“moved for a mistrial on the grounds that the state's attempt to establish a motive based on a homosexual relationship between the defendant and Cothran lacked a sufficient foundation and created prejudice that could not be erased from the minds of the jurors. The court denied the motion but sustained the defendant's objection to the characterization of the defendant's and Cothran's relationship as homosexual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although evidence of an arrest without conviction is inadmissible to attack the credibility of a witness, such evidence is admissible where it would reasonably tend to indicate motive, interest, bias or prejudice on the part of the witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“held that the due process clauses of both the United States and Connecticut constitutions have the same meaning and impose similar limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.