State v. Lunsford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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.

1. “The trial judge, notwithstanding the solicitor’s open file policy, committed no reversible error when he refused to declare a mistrial on account of the solicitor’s failure prior to trial to provide defense counsel with the proffer and statement, evidence that fell, because it was impeachment evidence, within the rule of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 , 83 S.Ct. 1194 , 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963). United States v. Bagley, 473. U.S. 667, 105 S.Ct. 3375 , 87 L.Ed.2d 481 (1985). Defense counsel had access to the questioned material before he resumed his cross-examination of [the investigating officer] and he elected to proceed with [the officer’s] cross- examination without taking advantage of the trial judge’s offer to provide him with “as much time as” he thought he needed to review the previously undisclosed evidence and to prepare for cross-examination of the witness in light of this • new evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jones