Cree v. Hatcher’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 34 · 1992
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2014
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. · Logarusic v. United States · Thompson v. United States · Yeomans v. Kentucky · Kearing v. Teel
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proper test for admissibility under Rule 609(a)(2) does not measure the severity or reprehensibility of the crime, but rather focuses on the witness's propensity for falsehood, deceit or deception.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"(a) General Rule. For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, ". . . . "(2) evidence that any witness has been convicted of a crime shall be admitted if it involved dishonesty or false statement, regardless of the punishment."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently reprehensible to meet the exception of rule 609(a)(2)”
2 later decisions 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.