United States v. Ortega’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.2d 803 · 1977
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Mehrmanesh (1982), United States v. Cook (1979)
55 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Davis v. Alaska · Alford v. United States · Smith v. Illinois · Government of the Virgin Islands v. Toto
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n absence of respect for the property of others is an undesirable character trait, but it is not an indicium of a propensity toward testimonial dishonesty.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... means crimes such as perjury or subornation of perjury, false statement, criminal fraud, embezzlement, or false pretense, or any other offenses in the nature of crimen falsi, the commission of which involves some element of deceit, untruthfulness, or falsification bearing on the accused's propensity to testify truthfully. H.R. Rep. No. 93-1597, at 9 (1974) (Conf. Rep.); see also Ortega , 561 F.2d at 806 . In light of this explanation, the rule's drafters clearly intended a specific legal meaning for the terms”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'automatically' a crime involving 'dishonesty or false statement' within the meaning of Rule 609(a)(2)”
2 later decisions 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.