United States v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Where the credibility of a given witness is particularly important because there is little other documentary or supporting evidence and success at trial probably hinges entirely on [the witness's] credibility with the jury, [the fourth and fifth] factors weigh in favor of admission of the prior conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. White

2. “[w]hile sale of a controlled substance and a felony-in-possession gun charge are different crimes, admission of the drug convictions in this case would still cause undue prejudice because guns and drugs are commonly perceived as inextricably linked,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. White

3. “the defendant's credibility will be a crucial issue, and if the jury is not permitted to hear limited details about the defendant's prior convictions, the jury will receive a skewed and incomplete picture of the defendant's credibility.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. White