People v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Merritt v. People (1992), People v. Rubanowitz (1984)
37 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 · Chambers v. Mississippi · People v. Honey · People v. Taylor · Moore v. People
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The credibility of a witness may be attacked or supported by evidence in the form of opinion or reputation, but subject to these limitations: (1) the evidence may refer only to character for truthfulness or untruthfulness ...." (emphasis supplied)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The trial court must ‘exercise its sound discretion to preclude inquiries which have no probative force, or are irrelevant ... or which would have little [bearing] on the witness’ credibility, but would substantially impugn his character.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘ Trial courts have broad discretion in controlling the mode and extent of the presentation of evidence,’ and we will not disturb a trial court ’s evidentiary rulings absent an abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions 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.