State v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Stogner v. California (2003), State v. Clyde Hayden Sr. (2008)
81 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 Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Collins v. Youngblood · California Department of Corrections v. Morales · Commonwealth v. Stockhammer · United States v. Morrow
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he district court must balance the defendant's need for exculpatory evidence against the privacy interest of the victim. To balance the relative interests of the defendant and the victim, the district court should review the confidential records in camera.... If confidential information is not exculpatory or necessary for the preparation of the defense, defense counsel's right to review the information is out-weighed by the victim's right to confidentiality.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all material or information that tends to mitigate or negate the defendant's guilt as to the offense charged or that would tend to reduce the defendant's potential sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the `role of the prosecutor is specialit is not to act as a zealous advocate, rather it is to protect the rights of citizens, including citizens accused of crime.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stout
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.