Bryant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Sharpe v. State (2000), Wade v. Battle (2004)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Carr v. State · Wilson v. State · Royals v. State
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These documents, which generally contain their makers' assertions of purported truths, [cit.] are ascribed evidentiary value only to the extent that their makers are credible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State“but rather merely an officer of the State assigned to investigate the crime for which the appellant was being tried”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State
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.