People v. Reyes’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably 38 Cal. 4th 72 - People v. Jurado (2006), People v. Martinez (1978)
30 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 6 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Beagle · 15 Cal. 3d 481 - People v. Lent · 11 Cal. 3d 738 - People v. Thornton · 16 Cal. 3d 101 - People v. Disbrow · 16 Cal. 3d 211 - People v. Rist
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as otherwise provided by statute, the court or jury may consider in determining the credibility of a witness any matter that has any tendency in reason to prove or disprove the truthfulness of his [or her] testimony at the hearing, including but not limited to ... (h) [a] statement made by him [or her] that is inconsistent with any part of his [or her] testimony at the hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... evidence of specific instances of ... conduct relevant only as tending to prove a trait of ... character is inadmissible to attack or support the credibility of a witness,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“words of direction or authorization do not constitute hearsay since they are not offered to prove the truth of any matter asserted by such words”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.