State v. Cardall’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Bond (2015), State v. Colwell (2000)
28 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 · United States v. Bagley · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Weatherford v. Bursey · State v. Pena
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exculpatory evidence exists [within the communications] which would be favorable to [the] defense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cegers · State v. Worthen“a habitual liar, that she fabricated her story about being raped, that she is mentally and emotionally unstable, and that the records show that on at least one previous occasion these psychological traits led her to lie about an attempted rape or sexual touching by the school janitor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cegers · State v. Worthen“[i]t is the trial court's responsibility to determine if an incident rises to the level requiring a mistrial, and it is the trial court which must decide if an "incident may have or probably influenced the jury, to the prejudice of [the defendant].”
3 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.