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Richard v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

58
cited by 58 later decisions
1
states following
June 2015
most recently cited

56 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Terry v. State (1984), Nelson v. State (1980)

56 state decisions

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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 · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo

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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"When defense requests are phrased so generally, the prosecutor's duty to disclose can be measured only by reference to the question of whether the evidence in his possession is so 'obviously exculpatory' that his failure to turn it over denied the defendant a fair trial." Id. at 614, 382 N.E.2d at 904.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Schultz v. State · Gambill v. State
  2. “might have affected the outcome of the trial.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. St. John v. State · Schultz v. State
  3. “A conviction obtained by the knowing use of perjured testimony is fundamentally unfair and a corruption of the truth-seeking function of the trial process, ... [citations omitted], and this rule includes known false testimony relating to the credibility of a state's witness. (Citations omitted.) (Emphasis added.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Hicks

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.