People v. Conyers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 federal appellate · 3 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If [a defendant] takes the stand and testifies in his own defense, his credibility may be impeached and his testimony assailed like that of any other witness .... “[H]e has no right to set forth to the jury all the facts which tend in his favor without laying himself open to a cross-examination upon those facts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Weir v. Fletcher