State v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Roscoe (1996), State v. Cañez (2002)
116 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 State v. Dessureault · McClain v. United States · State v. Willits · State v. Hunter · State v. Garrison
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the state fails to procure and/or assure the preservation of evidence that, though not obviously material, turns out to be material, it is up to the trial judge to determine if the state’s failure to recognize its materiality was reasonable or not and to give a Willits instruction only where it finds the failure to have been unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If you find that the plaintiff, the State of Arizona, has destroyed, caused to be destroyed, or allowed to be destroyed any evidence whose contents or quality are in issue, you may infer that the true fact is against their interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hernandez“court's ruling if the result was legally correct for any reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spence v. Bacal
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.