State v. Snell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · 246 So. 2d 771 - Richardson v. State · 345 So. 2d 1061 - Cumbie v. State · United States v. Carlton E. Bryant, United States of America v. William E. Turner
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he determination of any discovery sanction to be imposed in cases where the state loses evidence depends upon the deliberateness of the act and the degree of prejudice to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Muro“a defendant is not denied due process where the contents of a lost or destroyed tape recording would not have been beneficial to the accused, thus demonstrating a lack of prejudice”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Muro
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.