State v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Pena (1994), State v. Diaz (1993)
30 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 Terry v. Ohio · Simmons v. United States · Brown v. Texas · United States v. Hensley · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court erroneously admitted defendant’s prior convictions under rule 609(a)(2). His stealing-type crimes of retail theft and attempted burglary are not crimes of “dishonesty or false statement” within the meaning of rule 609(a)(2) unless, as discussed, they were committed by fraudulent or deceitful means bearing directly on the accused’s likelihood to testify truthfully. There is no evidence of that. Our decision in State v. Cintron [ 680 P.2d 33 (Utah 1984)], decided under former rule 21, must be restricted to interpreting that rule and is not authority for interpreting present rule 609(a).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(a) 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, or (2) involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lanier“[I]f a flyer or bulletin has been issued on the basis of articulable facts supporting a reasonable suspicion that the wanted person has committed an offense, then reliance on that flyer or bulletin justifies a stop to check identification, to pose questions to the person, or to detain the person briefly while attempting to obtain further information. If the flyer [or bulletin] has been issued in the absence of a reasonable suspicion, then a stop in the objective reliance upon it violates the Fourth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Roth
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.