Cornell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2018
5 federal appellate · 13 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · St. Martin Evangelical Lutheran Church v. South Dakota
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the evidence was discovered after the verdict; (2) that it could not have been discovered earlier in the exercise of due diligence; (3) that the evidence is material to the issue in the case and not merely cumulative or impeaching; and (4) that the evidence probably would have changed the result of the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitsel v. State“there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“testimony was otherwise impeached because of several inconsistent statements”
1 later decision 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.