People v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2011
14 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 Luce v. United States · People v. Curtis · People v. Czajkowski · People v. Scheer · People v. VALASQUEZ
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since an accused's decision not to testify seldom turns on a single factor, we cannot assume that the adverse ruling [that a prior conviction could be used for impeachment] motivated defendant's decision not to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Moore“An accused must testify in order to obtain appellate review of a trial court's ruling that a previous conviction could have been used for impeachment.”
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.