Vasquez v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
496 F.3d 564 · 2007
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Moore v. Mitchell (2013), United States v. Adams (2013)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Williams v. Taylor · Crawford v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the importance of the witness’ testimony in the prosecution’s case; (2) whether the testimony was cumulative; (3) the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the testimony of the witness on material points; (4) the extent of cross-examination otherwise permitted; and (5) the overall strength of the prosecution’s case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affords the right to impeach a witness . . ., subject to the trial court's discretion to impose reasonable limitations to prevent harassment and annoyance of the witness,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“impose reasonable limits on such cross-examination based on concerns about, among other things, harassment, prejudice, confusion of the issues, the witness' safety, or interrogation that is repetitive or only marginally relevant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Piscopo
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.