United States v. Hawley’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.2d 50 · 1977
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably United States v. Rosa (1993), United States v. Cook (1979)
32 federal appellate · 4 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 Glasser v. United States · Graves v. United States · Gordon v. United States · United States v. Taylor · West 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The impeachment value of the prior crime. (2) The point in time of the conviction and the witness’ subsequent history. (3) The similarity between the past crime and the charged crime. (4) The importance of the defendant’s testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the probative value of admitting [the conviction] outweighs its prejudicial effect to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.