James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Sochor v. Florida (1992), 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000)
49 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Enmund v. Florida · Johnson v. Louisiana · Wingo v. Wedding
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no Brady violation where the information is equally accessible to the defense and the prosecution, or where the defense either had the information or could have obtained it through the exercise of reasonable diligence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he mere possibility that an item of undisclosed information might have helped the defense, or might have affected the outcome of the trial, does not establish `materiality' in the constitutional sense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the absence of actual suppression of evidence favorable to an accused ... the state does not violate due process in denying discovery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.