State v. Wight’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2020
23 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 Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · United States v. Papia · State v. Day · Codianna v. Morris · United States v. Ortega
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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, or (2) involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · State v. Brown“We ... cannot ascertain from the record before us whether [the] proper [legal standard was applied], and, indeed, it appears that the court did not consider [the appropriate legal standard]. Therefore, because the trial court did not utilize [the proper legal standard], we find that the court erred. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“When assessing counsel's performance, we will not second guess trial counsel's legitimate use of judgment as to trial strategy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morgan
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.