Bailey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Washington v. Meachum (1996), Capano v. State (2001)
72 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 · Chapman v. State of California · Barker v. Wingo · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Agurs
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[I]f the duty to preserve evidence has been breached, a Delaware court must consider "(1) the degree of negligence or bad faith involved; (2) the importance of the missing evidence, considering the probative value and reliability of secondary or substitute evidence that remains available; and (3) the sufficiency of the other evidence used at trial to sustain conviction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“1) would the requested material, if extant in the possession of the State at the time of the defense request, have been subject to disclosure under [Superior Court] Criminal Rule 16 or Brady? 2) if so, did the government have a duty to preserve the material? 3) if there was a duty to preserve, was the duty breached, and what consequences should flow from a breach?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hammond v. State · Cook v. State“[i]n a subsequent retrial, the trial court's prior rulings must stand unless those rulings were clearly in error or there has been an important change in circumstance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lynds · Rogers v. Morgan
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.