State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Ironically, the most significant exculpatory feature of the destroyed evidence is the very fact of its destruction. The state's error in destroying the evidence, which denies the jury an opportunity to see what it actually looks like, preponderates in the defendant's favor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Buis

2. “[w]hen evidence is only potentially exculpatory, the destruction of such evidence does not deprive an accused of due process unless the police acted in bad faith when destroying the evidence”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Napier

3. “obtained a laboratory report showing that the substance seized from the pocket of [d]efendant's shirt was cocaine”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Napier