Primeaux v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably McKaney v. Foreman (2004), Lott v. State (2004)
27 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Crawford v. Washington · Chambers v. Mississippi
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.
“. . . a denial of fundamental fairness. . . . It is the materiality of the excluded evidence to the presentation of the defense that determines whether a petitioner has been deprived of a fundamentally fair trial. Evidence is material if its suppression might have affected the outcome. In other words, material evidence is that which is exculpatory--evidence that if admitted would create reasonable doubt that did not exist without the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. VASQUEZ v. STATE · TRYON v. STATE“Statements not offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted are generally admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. TRYON v. STATE“commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Summers v. State
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.