State v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2023
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 United States ex rel. Almeida v. Baldi · Trimble v. State · State v. Morris
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]onstitutional materiality requires that there be a showing that the suppressed or destroyed evidence is vital to the issues of whether the defendant is guilty of the charge and whether there is a fundamental unfairness that requires the Court to set aside the defendant’s conviction. A corollary of this proposition is, “The 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.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We think it advisable that those charged with investigation and prosecution of crime retain all records and other evidence pertaining to the case until it is finally disposed of. By adopting such a practice, a claim of unfairness by one charged with a criminal offense would be groundless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Basta
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.