United States v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
683 F.2d 273 · 1982
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably United States v. Ismail (1985), Wilmington v. J.I. Case Co. (1986)
30 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Delli Paoli v. United States · Federal Election Commission v. Machinists Non-Partisan Political League · Greene v. Massey · Abujasen v. United States · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“General Rule. For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that he has been convicted of a crime shall be admitted if elicited from him or established by public record during cross-examination but only if the crime (1) was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year under the law under which he was convicted and the court determines that the probative value of admitting this evidence outweighs its prejudicial effect to the defendant....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Key“The weighing of probative value against prejudicial effect [under Rule 609(b) ] is committed to the sound discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“substantially outweighs its prejudicial effect,”
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.