Ramirez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Moody v. State (1992), Lagrone v. State (1997)
37 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 Ochoa v. State
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Opinion and reputation evidence of character. The credibility of a witness may be attacked or supported by evidence in the form of opinion or reputation, but subject to these limitations: (1) the evidence may refer only to character for truthfulness, and (2) evidence of truthful character is admissible only after the character of the witness for truthfulness has been attacked by opinion or reputation evidence or otherwise. (b) Specific instances of conduct. Specific instances of the conduct of a witness, for the purpose of attacking or supporting his credibility, other than conviction of crime as provided in Rule 609, may not be inquired into on cross-examination of the witness nor proved by extrinsic evidence. A distinction can be drawn between evidence of specific acts offered to infer that a person who engages in conduct of a certain type is not credible and evidence of specific acts offered to show that the witness has actually made a misrepresentation on direct examination in the instant case. As stated by Judge Miller: As long as a party is correcting a false impression made by a witness I would allow that party, pursuant to Rule 607, to utilize for impeachment purposes a specific instance of the witness's conduct. Although Rule 607 does not expressly address this exception, I do not believe the enactment of the Rules of Criminal Evidence abolished it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ex Parte Kimes“There is an exception to the general rule that a party is not entitled to impeach a witness on a collateral matter. When a witness leaves a false impression concerning a matter relating to his or her credibility, the opposing party is allowed to correct that false impression. For example, “when the witness, by his direct testimony, leaves a false impression of his ‘trouble’ with the police, it is legitimate cross-examination to prove that the witness had been ‘in trouble’ on occasions other than those about which he offered direct testimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Paez v. State“[t]he general rule is that a party is not entitled to impeach a witness on a collateral matter[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Clark v. State
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