People v. Pratt’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Pantazes v. State (2003), Itin v. Ungar (2000)
25 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Michelson v. United States · Golden v. Zwickler · Douglas v. Alabama · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the discretion of the [trial] court, if probative of truthfulness or untruthfulness, be inquired into on cross-examination of the witness ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Colorado v. Segovia · Itin v. Ungar“the inclusion of several definite elements in a criminal statute cannot solve the constitutional deficiency created by the failure of the legislature to défine a critical element of the statute with sufficient certainty,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People ex rel. M.C.“Specific instances of the conduct of a witness, for the purpose of attacking or supporting his credibility ... may not be proved by extrinsic evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Itin v. Ungar
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.