Steese v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Hernandez v. State (2002), Higgs v. State (2010)
34 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Bagley · Kyles v. Whitley · Tennessee v. Garner
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence is material when there is a reasonable probability that had the evidence been available to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Brady does not require the State to disclose evidence which is available to the defendant from other sources, including diligent investigation by the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Due process requires the State to preserve material evidence. However, this presupposes that the State has possession and control of the evidence at issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. State
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.