State v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Dukes v. State (2001), 190 W. Va. 321 - In Re an Investigation of the West Virginia State Police Crime Laboratory (1993)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 70 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 United States v. Agurs · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Rideout v. United States · Krulewitch v. United States · Estep v. United States
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The court is reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by a material witness is false. (b) That without [the testimony] the jury might have reached a different conclusion. (c) That the party seeking the new trial was taken by surprise when the false testimony was given and was unable to meet it or did not know of its falsity until after the trial.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · Dye v. State“A new trial may be granted on the basis of newly-discovered evidence if the petitioner shows that the evidence could not have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence before the trial; that at the time of the trial the evidence was not within petitioner’s or his counsel’s knowledge; that the evidence is not impeaching, cumulative, or doubtful; and that it would probably produce a result different from or more favorable than that which actually occurred.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Berry v. State · Dye v. State““The jury was told by thé district court in preliminary instructions that statements and arguments of counsel are not evidence. Furthermore, in final instructions the jury was told ‘that if during trial or in the heat of argument, counsel upon either side has made statements which are not supported by the evidence in the case, or if counsel have expressed their opinion or belief regarding any of the facts and issues in this case, it is your duty to wholly disregard such statements and to decide this case solely and exclusively upon the evidence and these instructions.’ Under these circumstances, and in light of the district court’s findings, we find no grounds for granting post-conviction relief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Marks
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.