297 Ga. App. 817 - State v. Brawner’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2012
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Arizona v. Youngblood · Walker v. State · Brannan v. State · Fincher v. State · 277 Ga. App. 106 - Williams 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the presence or absence of bad faith by the police for purposes of the Due Process Clause must necessarily turn on the police's knowledge of the exculpatory value of the evidence at the time it was lost or destroyed. A finding of bad faith is reserved for those cases in which the police themselves by their conduct indicate that the evidence could form a basis for exonerating the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a court must determine both whether the evidence was material and whether the police acted in bad faith. . . . To meet the standard of constitutional materiality, the evidence must possess an exculpatory value that was apparent before it was destroyed, and be of such a nature that the defendant would be unable to obtain comparable evidence by other reasonably available means.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The State's duty to preserve evidence which may be exculpatory arises from the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution.”
1 later decision 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.