State v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Redcrow (1999), Vernon Kills on Top v. State (1996)
1 federal appellate · 88 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 · Townsend v. Sain · Murray v. Carrier · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Harris v. Nelson
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In light of the inherent suspicion surrounding recanted testimony and the public interest in swift and sure justice, we believe the better reasoned approach to be that adopted by the Supreme Court of Kansas: “ ‘When a new trial is sought on the basis of recanting testimony of a prosecution witness, the weight to be given such testimony is for the trial judge passing on the motion for a new trial to determine. The trial judge is required to grant a new trial only when he [or she] is satisfied the recantation of the witness is true.’ ” (citations omitted) Id. 758 P.2d at 275 ; (quoting State v. Norman, 232 Kan. 102 , 652 P.2d 683, 689 (1982)). See also Thacker v. Commonwealth, 453 S.W.2d 566, 568 (Ky.1970).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. State · State v. Clark“sounds in the nature a petition for habeas corpus,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he central function of the courts is the achievement of justice. However, like all endeavors of man, the search for justice is not without occasional flaws. From the time of the Magna [Carta], the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus has been liberally employed as a means of guaranteeing that this judicial goal be accomplished and that a miscarriage of justice will be remedied. See Blackstone Comm. at 129 et seq. For at its heart, the writ represents an acknowledgement of the principle that the rights of freedom of the individual are worthy of protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Currier v. Holden
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.