State v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) The impeachment value of the prior crime; (2) The point in time of the conviction and the witness's subsequent history; (3) The similarity of the past crime and 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 passage
   e.g. State v. Bryant

2. “the fact that he may tend to get in trouble from time to time, while it has a certain amount of prejudice in it, also, does include that issue of whether or not he's worthy of belief.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bryant

3. “based on [the trial court's] belief the testimony could lead to an inference [Petitioner] was unworthy of credibility because of his prior convictions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bryant