State v. Bergin’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Simms v. Warden, State Prison (1994), Simms v. Warden (1994)
140 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 Franks v. Delaware · United States v. Scott · United States v. Wilson · Johnson v. Righetti · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dismissal of an information is a drastic action that is appropriate in cases where there [is] a need either to eliminate prejudice to a defendant in a criminal prosecution, where it [is] impossible to do so by imposition of lesser sanctions, or to deter a pattern of demonstrated and longstanding widespread or continuous official misconduct.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[B]efore a defendant is entitled to a Franks hearing for an alleged omission, he must make a substantial preliminary showing that the information was (1) omitted with the intent to make, or in reckless disregard of whether it made, the affidavit misleading to the issuing judge, and (2) material to the determination of probable cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[w]here the [information] alleges that an offense allegedly occurred `on or about' a certain date, the defendant is deemed to be on notice that the charge is not limited to a specific date.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.