People v. Cole

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that questions about “unrelated arrests and citizen complaints of the use of excessive force” of a police officer was a “direct attack upon the general character of the witness”
• extrinsic evidence of prior conduct may not be used to impeach the credibility of the witness
• “[A]s a general rule[,] specific instances of prior conduct may not be proven by extrinsic evidence to impeach the credibility of the witness.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

35 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Clark
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2015-04-23· cited 989×
• People v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1996-06-10· cited 710×
• People v. Caldwell
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2001-09-13· cited 119×
• Colorado v. Segovia
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2008-11-24· cited 109×
• Merritt v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-11-23· cited 106×
• People v. Rubanowitz
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-09-04· cited 84×
• People v. Tippett
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-03-09· cited 71×
• People v. Carter
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2015-03-12· cited 63×
• People v. Bowman
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1983-09-26· cited 54×
• People v. Saiz
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2001-09-10· cited 43×
• People v. Knight
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2006-11-30· cited 37×
• People v. Thurman
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-03-05· cited 32×
• People v. Thomas
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2014-05-22· cited 25×
• People v. Lanari
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1996-05-02· cited 24×
• Jones v. District Court Ex Rel. Second Judicial District
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-10-02· cited 24×
• People v. Ortega
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1983-08-18· cited 23×
• Stevens v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-07-16· cited 22×
• People v. Finney
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-03-15· cited 20×
• People v. Ray
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2004-09-23· cited 19×
• v. Wardell
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2020-03-31· cited 18×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• People v. Honey
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1979-07-16· cited 111×
• People v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1976-01-26· cited 68×
• People v. Hinchman
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1978-12-11· cited 50×
• People v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1979-08-13· cited 42×
• Moore v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1970-03-30· cited 42×
• People v. Ferrell
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1980-06-23· cited 37×
• People v. Key
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1974-05-06· cited 33×
• Wertz v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1966-07-18· cited 28×
• People v. Bynum
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1976-12-06· cited 26×
• People v. Couch
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1972-09-05· cited 22×
• People v. Simmons
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1973-08-20· cited 15×
• People v. Root
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1982-09-07· cited 7×
• People v. Miller
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1976-05-17· cited 7×