State v. Pokini’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Estrada (1987), State v. Keliiholokai (1977)
1 district · 36 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 Maness v. Meyers · Johnson v. United States · Boyd v. United States · State v. Santiago · State v. Kahinu
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant who elects to testify in his own defense is subject to cross-examination as to any matter pertinent to, or having a logical connection with the specific offense for which he is being tried.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Culkin · State v. Maluia“[t]he subject matter of the inquiry must have some rational bearing upon the defendant’s capacity for truth and veracity. And where the testimony sought to be elicited is of minimal value on the issue of credibility and comes into direct conflict with the defendant’s right to a fair trial, the right of cross-examination into those areas must yield to the overriding requirements of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Plichta · State v. Stanley“[cjross-exami-nation of the defendant in a criminal case as to specific instances of conduct under Rule 608 HRE must have some rational bearing upon the defendant’s capacity for truth and veracity[J”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. St. Clair
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.