State v. Busby’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1998
20 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 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery · Gordon v. United States · Luck v. United States · State v. Smith · State v. Camper
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who has been convicted of a criminal offense is, notwithstanding, a competent witness; but the conviction may be proved to affect his credibility, either by the record or by his own cross-examination, upon which he must answer any question relevant to that inquiry, and the party cross-examining shall not be concluded by his answer, (Italics added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rice · State v. Martin“trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to invoke the drastic remedy of declaring a mistrial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Neff“confer[s] an absolute right to show prior convictions... for the purpose of impeachment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Baker
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.