Cohn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Lopez v. State (2011), Casey v. State (2007)
2 federal appellate · 103 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 Montgomery v. State · David W. McKay v. Texas · Kelly v. State · McKay v. State · Duckett 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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Bolstering” may perhaps be understood a little more precisely to be any evidence the sole purpose of which is to convince the factfinder that a particular witness or source of evidence is worthy of credit, without substantively contributing “to make the existence of [a] fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more or less probable than it would be without the evidence.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Solomon v. State · Briones v. State“automatically” error. The Rules of Evidence, however, do not contain a specific rule pertaining to or prohibiting”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Turro v. State · Montoya v. State“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 or untruthfulness; 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Moore v. State
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.