Scaggs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 299th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Montgomery v. State · King v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We now hold that the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to the accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material to guilt or to punishment irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecutor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Michaelwicz 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.