Bradley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably State v. Simms (2011), Walker v. State (2003)
32 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Arizona v. Fulminante · Dorsey v. State · Luster v. Cushman · Francis 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is obvious that the prosecutor’s sole reason for prevailing on the court to call Cole as a court’s witness was to get before the jury Cole’s extrajudicial hearsay statement implicating Spence. The prosecutor knew that Cole’s testimony would be exculpatory as to Spence. The inescapable conclusion is that the State, over objection, prevailed on the court to call a witness who would contribute nothing to the State’s case, for the sole purpose of ‘impeaching’ the witness with otherwise inadmissible hearsay. * * * * * * This blatant attempt to circumvent the hearsay rule andparade inadmissible evidence before the jury is not permissible. The State cannot, over objection, have a witness called who it knows will contribute nothing to its case, as a subterfuge to admit, as impeaching evidence, otherwise inadmissible hearsay evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. State · Stewart v. State““[O]ur holding does not affect Nance.... Had [the witness’s] prior statement been reduced to writing and signed, thus making it admissible as substantive evidence rather than solely impeachment evidence, it would have been admissible. In the instant case, however, the prior statement by [the witness] was not reduced to a writing and signed or adopted by him and, thus, it was not admissible as substantive evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. State · Stewart v. State“[ A] defendant is denied a fair trial if the State with full knowledge that its questions will contribute nothing to its case, questions a witness concerning an independent area of inquiry in order to open the door for impeachment and introduce a prior inconsistent [oral] statement.”
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.