State v. Piper’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably State v. Roque (2006), State v. McMurtrey (1983)
25 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Corallo v. United States · Brady v. United States · Ruffalo v. Mahoning County Bar Ass'n · Tocco v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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““This argument has been presented in many cases, but rarely successfully, and we decline to extend McAlvain in such a way. “The trial court is required, we now hold, to give this instruction upon request of a defendant. A.R.S. § 13-163(B); State v. Dean, 8 Ariz.App. 508 , 447 P.2d 890 (1968); State v. Hale, Or.App., 537 P.2d 1173 (1975); Kimmel v. People, 172 Colo. 333 , 473 P.2d 167 (1970); State v. Baxter, 51 Haw. 157 , 454 P.2d 366 (1969), cert. denied, 397 U.S. 955 , 90 S. Ct. 984 , 25 L.Ed.2d 138 (1970). “It is certainly not reversible error if the instruction is given without request. State v. Wheeler, 108 Ariz. 338 , 498 P.2d 205 (1972); State v. McAlvain, supra. In a joint trial, a court must give the instruction to a jury upon request of one codefendant, even where other codefendants may object. State v. Dean, supra; United States v. Epperson, 485 F.2d 514 (9th Cir. 1973); United States v. Schroeder, 433 F.2d 846 (8th Cir. 1970), cert. denied, 401 U.S. 943 , 91 S.Ct. 951 , 28 L.Ed.2d 244 (1971); United States v. Kelly, 349 F.2d 720 (2d Cir. 1965), cert. denied, 384 U.S. 947 , 86 S.Ct. 1467 , 16 L.Ed.2d 544 (1966); Caton v. United States, 407 F.2d 367 (8th Cir. 1969), cert. denied, 395 U.S. 984 , 89 S.Ct. 2149 , 23 L.Ed.2d 773 (1969); United States v. Russo, 413 F.2d 432 (2d Cir. 1969). There is no right, in the federal circuit courts, of defendants to insist the instruction not be given. United States v. Williams, 172 U.S. App.D.C. 290, 521 F.2d 950 (1975), and sev e”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The state must prove all of'its case against the defendant with evidence that the state itself gathers. Therefore the defendant is not required to testify. The decision on whether to testify is left to the defendant, acting with the advice of his attorney. You must not conclude that the defendant is likely to be guilty because he does not testify. You must not discuss this fact or let it affect your deliberations in any way.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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