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← 154 VT 648 - State v. Shaw

State v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1996
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Carlton E. Bryant, United States of America v. William E. Turner · State v. Bailey · State v. Shaw · State v. Smith · State v. Seifert

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

  1. “'[I]f the duty to preserve evidence has been breached, a Delaware court must consider "(1) the degree of negligence or bad faith involved; (2) the importance of the missing evidence, considering the probative value and reliability of secondary or substitute evidence that remains available; and (3) the sufficiency of the other evidence used at trial to sustain conviction.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.