State v. Frey’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2011
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Commonwealth v. Dascalakis · Attorney General v. Pelletier · City of Boston v. Santosuosso · Commonwealth v. Lockwood · People v. . Bradner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The determinative question then becomes: When sentence is not imposed, may there be a ‘conviction’ which will satisfy the meaning of Sec. 491.050, supra? Or, to put the question differently, may the credibility of a witness be impeached, under Sec. 491.050, by a record which shows he entered a plea of guilty but that sentence was not imposed?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . . We hold that it is impermissible in Missouri to impeach the credibility of a witness . . . unless sentence is imposed or pronounced in the prior proceeding . . . ”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crate“Such proof may be either by the record or by his own cross-examination, upon which he must answer any question relevant to that inquiry,....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Wahl
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.