State v. Vanmanivong’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2020
22 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 Chapman v. State of California · Roviaro v. United States · Neder v. United States · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · McCray v. 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Testimony on merits. If it appears from the evidence in the case or from other showing by a party that an informer may be able to give testimony necessary to a fair determination of the issue of guilt or innocence in a criminal case or of a material issue on the merits in a civil case to which the federal government or a state or subdivision thereof is a party, and the federal government or a state or subdivision thereof invokes the privilege, the judge shall give the federal government or a state or subdivision thereof an opportunity to show in camera facts relevant to determining whether the informer can, in fact, supply that testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether it appears beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Norman“(c) Legality of obtaining evidence. If information from [a CI] is relied upon to establish the legality of the means by which evidence was obtained and the judge is not satisfied that the information was received from [a CI] reasonably believed to be reliable or credible, the judge may require the identity of the [CI] to be disclosed. The judge shall on request of the ... [S]tate ... direct that the disclosure be made in camera . All counsel and parties concerned with the issue of legality shall be permitted to be present at every stage of proceedings under this subdivision except a disclosure in camera at which no counsel or party shall be permitted to be present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.