State v. Gibbons’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Impeachment evidence, as well as exculpatory evidence, is under the protective umbrella of Brady. "). Because we agree with the trial court that the existence of these studies was previously disclosed in discovery and defendant failed to request them, defendant cannot meet an essential element of the Brady test—that the State suppressed evidence. ¶ 13. In Brady , the United States Supreme Court announced that "the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Rooney

2. “the conscience, not of an ordinary party to a dispute, but of a sovereign whose interest in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Matthew Webster

3. “Impeachment evidence, as well as exculpatory evidence, is under the protective umbrella of Brady.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Rooney