State v. Bettin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably State v. Bias (1988), State v. Gassler (1993)
45 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 Graves v. United States · Gordon v. United States · State v. Jones · State v. Brouillette · State v. Leecy
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.
“1. was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year under the law under which he was convicted and the court determines that the probative value of admitting the evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect, or 2. involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laughnan v. State“(1) the impeachment value of the prior conviction; (2) the date of the conviction and defendant’s subsequent history; (3) the similarity of the prior conviction with the charged crime; (4) the importance of the defendant’s testimony; and (5) the centrality of the credibility issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State“[I]f the issue for the jury narrows to a choice between defendant’s credibility and that of one other person — then a greater case can be made for admitting the impeachment evidence, because the need for the evidence is greater.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schwab
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.