Kosmas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably State v. Hawkins (1992), MEDICAL MUTUAL LIABILITY INS. SOC. OF MARYLAND v. Evans (1993)
72 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 Bruton v. United States · Wilhelm v. State · People v. Carter · State v. Driver · Commonwealth v. Saunders
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he determining factor as to whether a mistrial is necessary is whether 'the prejudice to the defendant was so substantial that he [or she] was deprived of a fair trial.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““In [circumstantial evidence cases] particularly, to tell a jury of laymen at the very outset of the trial that defendant refused a number of times to take a lie detector test was to create a probable aura of prejudice which would permeate the proceeding to the very end.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the defendant is believed in those areas in which his testimony conflicts with that of [the two witnesses for the prosecution], the State’s case is very weak. Again, then, it is apparent that the issue of the defendant’s credibility is a central and crucial factor in this case, and the State’s evidence that does not hinge at least in part upon the determination of that credibility is hardly of sufficient strength to permit us to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the inadmissible evidence did not in any way influence the verdict.”
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.