Reed v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2010
11 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Griffin v. California · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · Greene v. Massey · Goldstein v. Garrity
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cross-examination by the prosecutor which consists solely of impeachment of a defendant’s credibility by prior convictions is authorized by § ,14-305(b). Congress “left no doubt that in this jurisdiction, our policy is that when a defendant takes the stand the court must permit the prosecutor to attack his or her credibility by introducing recent prior convictions for felonies and other crimes involving dishonesty or false statement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no evidence of any conviction of a witness is admissible under this section if a period of more than ten years has elapsed since the later of (i) the date of the release of the witness from confinement imposed for his most recent conviction of any criminal offense, or (ii) expiration of the period of his parole, probation, or sentence granted or imposed with respect to his most recent conviction of any criminal offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a prosecutor may not cross-examine a defendant about [it] unless the prosecutor has a certificate under seal as provided by § 14-305(c) or the trial judge has ruled in advance of the cross-examination or offer of proof aliunde that the government has presented sufficiently rehable proof of a prior conviction by a defendant to permit cross-examination or proof aliunde.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.