Roby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2007
13 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 Brown v. United States · Federal Trade Commission v. Textile & Apparel Group · United States v. Harris · State v. Singleton · 46 Cal. 2d 891 - People v. Dotson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant who has voluntarily testified may be cross-examined the same as any other witness and the latitude of cross-examination is largely within the discretion of the court. ... . [Tlhe prosecution may impeach a witness' credibility by presenting competent evidence of an attempt to fabricate evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Haworth v. State · Trusky v. State“It is well established that the scope of proper cross-examination may extend to the whole transaction of which the witness has testified, or it may be employed to elicit any matter which may tend to overcome, qualify or explain the testimony given by a witness on his direct examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Dysthe v. State“[A party] cannot adopt a strategy and at the same time preclude the [adverse party] from testing its validity by cross-examination ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Dysthe v. State
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.