Malone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably 538 So. 2d 329 - Pinkney v. State (1988), 735 So. 2d 1099 - Colenburg v. State (1999)
25 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. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · 468 So. 2d 45 - Fuselier v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]ondisclosure of the prosecution's plea agreement with a codefendant under circumstances where the terms of that agreement might reasonably touch upon the codefendant's credibility or otherwise undermine confidence in the outcome of the trial may vitiate a criminal conviction and require a new trial.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“included a copy of the circuit court's order, entered 24 hours after Malone's conviction, accepting the witness' plea and sentencing her to the minimum sentence. The substance of Malone's argument was further supported by an affidavit executed by an attorney for one of Malone's and the witness' co-defendants. The attorney therein stated that prior to trial such a plea bargain agreement did, in fact, exist. We held this to be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The question before us is how these rules apply to the factual and procedural context of this case. We begin with the fact that Malone made no specific pre-trial discovery request in discovery for plea agreements with [the star witness]... . He made only a general request for exculpatory material.”
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.