State v. Eugene’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2015
10 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 Babich v. United States · Dothard v. Rawlinson · Murphy v. United States · United States v. Mahone · 37 Cal. 3d 436 - People v. Holt
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) General Rule. For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, (i) evidence that a witness other than an accused has been convicted of a crime must be admitted, subject to Rule 403, if the crime was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year under the law under which the witness was convicted, and evidence that an accused has been convicted of such a crime must be admitted if the court determines that the probative value of admitting that evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect to the accused; and (ii) evidence that any witness has been convicted of a crime must be admitted if it involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial court abuses its discretion if the record does not show that the trial court meaningfully or appropriately considered the relevant factors' when it weighed the prior conviction’s probative value and prejudicial effect. Although we prefer the trial court to articulate expressly how it balanced the relevant factors, it is often enough for the court to hold a brief heaping and to make an explicit finding on the record that demonstrates the trial court did not just apply [N.D.R.Ev. 609(a)(1) ] mechanically.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Murchison · State v. Acker“`impeachment value of the prior crime, the point in time of the conviction and the witness's subsequent history, the similarity between the past crime and the charged crime, the importance of the defendant's testimony and the centrality of the credibility issue.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Murchison
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.