Pierce v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 2002
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Pointer v. Texas · Alford v. United States · Smith v. Illinois · Ashton v. Anderson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prohibits impeachment of a witness by evidence of prior bad acts unless the act is an 'infamous' crime or a crime probative of credibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State · Rhodes v. State“The rule [608(b)] prohibits impeachment of a witness by evidence of prior bad acts unless the act is an 'infamous' crime or a crime probative of credibility, The reason for the 'Bad Acts' rule is to prevent the jury from inferring that the witness must be a liar merely because he has done bad things.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lambert 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.