State v. Asherman’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 409 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 418 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Copas v. Commissioner of Correction (1995), State v. Prioleau (1995)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 409 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · United States v. Mendenhall
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 418 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the materiality of the missing evidence, the likelihood of mistaken interpretation of it by witnesses or the jury, the reason for its nonavailability to the defense and the prejudice to the defendant caused by the unavailability of the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No person shall be compelled to give evidence against himself. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall be compelled . . . to be a witness against himself . . . .”
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.