State v. Byrum’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2008
12 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 United States v. Green · State v. Johnson · United States v. Bosley · State v. Fox · State v. Clabaugh
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if `the evidence is not admissible under [Rule 608(b) ] it may be admissible to impeach by contradiction as allowed by SDCL 19-14-8 [(Rule 607)].'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Specific instances of the conduct of a witness, for the purpose of attacking or supporting his credibility, other than conviction of crime ... may not be proved by extrinsic evidence. They may, however, in the discretion of the court, if probative of truthfulness or untruthfulness, be inquired into on cross-examination of the witness (1) concerning his character for truthfulness or untruthfulness, or (2) concerning the character for truthfulness or untruthfulness of another witness as to which character the witness being cross-examined has testified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walton“specific instances of conduct, under certain circumstances, may be inquired into on cross-examination but may not be proved by extrinsic evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Litschewski
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.