United States v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 607 · 1978
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably United States v. Mejia-Alarcon (1993), United States v. Acosta (1985)
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312
Relies on Kelly v. United States · United States v. Clemons · United States v. Jardan
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“effectively cut off both the prosecutor’s privilege to withhold the possibly prejudicial evidence and the court’s opportunity to reconsider its preliminary ruling by voluntarily broaching the subject of the * * * [prior] conviction on direct examination. # Jje sjc * * * By voluntarily testifying to the * * * [prior] conviction, * * * [the defendant] waived any objection to the trial court’s pretrial ruling on that issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“developed in the course of the trial which bear on the probative value or prejudicial effect of the conviction in question. Thus, in ordinary circumstances, a defendant who objects to a pretrial ruling on the admissibility of such an aged conviction ought to assert that objection when the prosecutor seeks to introduce the questioned evidence. 29 Id. at 612-13. In Cobb, as here, defense counsel himself introduced the”
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.