State v. Cohane’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Hinckley (1985), State v. Sinclair (1985)
150 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the knowing presentation of false evidence by the state is incompatible with the rudimentary demands of justice. ... Furthermore, due process is similarly offended if the state, although not soliciting false evidence, allows it to go uncorrected when it ap pears.... Regardless of the lack of intent to lie on the part of the witness ... the prosecutor [must] apprise the court when he knows that his witness is giving testimony that is substantially misleading.... A new trial is required if the false testimony could ... in any reasonable likelihood have affected the judgment of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In Brady ... the United States Supreme Court held that the prosecution's failure to disclose a codefendant's statement that exculpated the defendant after the defendant had specifically requested that statement constituted a violation of the defendant's due process right under the fourteenth amendment. [T]he 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“arising out of failure to give a 'no adverse inference' instruction, we expressly reserved the question whether noncompliance with so central an aspect of the privilege against self-incrimination could ever be considered harmless error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ruocco
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.