Birkla v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Baum v. State (1976), Newman v. State (1975)
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Mooney v. Holohan · Alcorta v. Texas
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[The duty of the prosecutor vis-G-vis a defendant's right to fair trial commences when the citizen is charged. Thus, a suppression by the prosecution of evi dence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process when the evidence is material either to guilt or punishment, irrespective of the bona fides of the prosecution."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen the prosecution relies upon the testimony of a coconspirator to obtain conviction of an accused, the coconspirator's credibility is an important issue in the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. J.J. v. State · Reed v. State“[t]he jury's estimate 6f the truthfulness and reliability of a given witness may well be determinative of guilt or innocence, and it is upon such subtle factors as possible interest of the witness in testifying falsely that a defendant's life or liberty may depend.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.