Cloud v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 742 · 1980
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably United States v. Rocha (1990), United States v. Cohen (1980)
26 federal appellate · 2 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 Davis v. Alaska · Cardillo v. United States · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · United States v. Cardillo · United States v. Garrett
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is firmly established in this Circuit that a witness may not be impeached by inquiry into specific acts of misconduct not resulting in a conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all character evidence of whatever relevance and probative value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. McCotter
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.