People v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2024
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Arizona v. Fulminante · Blecha v. People · Vega v. People · Merritt v. People · People v. Pronovost
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence does not become inadmissible under . . . the rape shield statute simply because it might indirectly cause the finder of fact to make an inference concerning the victim's prior sexual conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should impose 'the least severe sanction that will ensure that there is full compliance with the court's discovery orders”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Lee · People v. Stevenson“A trial court has the authority to impose some limits on cross examination, but where the limits imposed prevent a criminal defendant from using cross examination to explore the bias or prejudice of a witness against him, the requirements of the Sixth Amendment are not met. In order to obtain a new trial, [the defendant] need not show that the limits on cross examination would have changed the outcome, but rather that the ruling preventing him from challenging [the victim’s] credibility was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Golden
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.