Ramirez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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

1. “a testifying defendant is required to give answers only as to whether he had been previously convicted of a felony, as to what the felony was, and as to when the conviction was had.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Proffit v. State · Foster v. State

2. “"In such cases the defendant may be cross-examined on any facts which are relevant to the direct examination," [United States v.] Wolf, 561 F.2d [1376], 1881 [ (10th Cir. 1977) ], provided however, the prosecution does not "harp on the witness's crime, parade it lovingly before the jury in all its gruesome details, and thereby shift the focus of attention from the events at issue in the present case to the witness's conviction in a previous case." [United States v.] Robinson, 8 F.3d [898], 410 [(7th Cir.1998) ].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Proffit v. State

3. “In such cases the defendant may be cross-examined on any facts which are relevant to the direct examination,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Proffit v. State