Bostic v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.2d 636 · 1937
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 10 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Fisher v. United States (1946), Luck v. United States (1965)
78 federal appellate · 10 district · 5 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 Rosen v. United States · Commonwealth v. Tucker · State v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Buccieri · Murray v. United States
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person shall be incompetent to testify, in either civil or criminal proceedings, by reason of his having been convicted of crime, but such fact may be given in evidence to affect his credit as a witness, either upon the cross-examination of the witness or by evidence aliunde; and the party cross-examining him shall not be concluded by his answers as to such matters. In order to prove such conviction of crime it shall not be necessary to produce the whole record of the proceedings containing such conviction, but the certificate, under seal, of the clerk of the court wherein such proceedings were had, stating the fact of the conviction and for what cause, shall be sufficient. [D. C. Code 1951, sec. 14-305.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test provided by Congress is clear and certain. Any person who has been convicted of a crime * * * may have that fact given in evidence against him to affect his credit as a witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Some appreciable time must elapse in order that reflection and consideration amounting to deliberation may occur.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.