State v. Hatfield’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2016
20 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 · State v. Hatfield · State v. Greeno · State v. Craig · State v. Demers
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the prosecutor shall make available to the defendant for examination ... all material or information that tends to mitigate or negate the defendant's guilt as to the offense charged or that would tend to reduce the defendant's potential sentence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jackson“(1) Following a verdict or finding of guilty, the court may grant the defendant a new trial if required in the interest of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Brogan“tends to clear the accused of guilt and vitiate the conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Strand
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.