Opie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Frias v. State (1986), Daellenbach v. State (1977)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 47 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. Johnson · Leviton Et Al. v. United States · United States v. Johnson · People v. Beard · State v. Spears
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The evidence has come to his knowledge since the trial; 2. It was not owing to the want of due diligence that it did not come sooner; 3. The evidence is so material that it would probably produce a different verdict; and 4. The evidence is not cumulative.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * On the other hand, there is respectable authority for the rule that a new trial will not be granted for newly discovered evidence, when the alleged newly discovered evidence is merely cumulative or when it is merely impeaching or contradictory of the former evidence. [Citations.]" Opie v. State, supra, at 86.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grable v. State
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.