United States v. Apfelbaum’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 62 · 1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2005
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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. § 1623
Relies on Mullaney v. Wilbur · Stirone v. United States · Michelson v. United States · Beck v. United States · United States v. Apfelbaum
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The government stated that if Apfelbaum called his character witnesses, it intended to cross-examine these witnesses by inquiring into their familiarity with a newspaper article appearing in the Philadelphia Inquirer on July 11, 1975. The article described charges made by an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia that Apfelbaum, administrative assistant to the Philadelphia District Attorney, had attempted to “fix” a case, and recounts Apfelbaum’s flat denials of these allegations. Rulings on the permissible scope of cross-examination in this context are within the sound discretion of the district court, and may only be reversed for abuse of that discretion. We find no abuse here. Apfelbaum offered the character witnesses to testify to his reputation for truth and veracity. The article, to the extent that it relates Apfel-baum’s denial of a public accusation, concerns an event that implicates his reputation for veracity. Thus, the familiarity of these witnesses with the substance of this article is relevant to their qualifications to testify on Apfelbaum’s reputation for truth and veracity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hohman v. State“The safeguards emphasized in that case included (1) clearly instructing the jury that they were to consider any incidents brought out in cross-examination only for purposes of assessing the witness’ standard of opinion of the character trait at issue of the defendant, (2) ascertaining out of the presence of the jury “that counsel was not merely taking a random shot at a reputation imprudently exposed or asking a groundless question to waft an unwarranted innuendo into the jury box” and (3) ensuring that the questioning was relevant to the character trait asserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hohman v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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