549 So. 2d 601 - Bates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2016
10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Katz v. United States · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs
Most-quoted passages
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“the rule of Brady applies only in situations which involve 'discovery after trial of information which had been known to the prosecution but unknown to the defense. ' " ' Bates v. State , 549 So.2d 601 , 609 (Ala.Crim.App.1989) (quoting Gardner v. State , 530 So.2d 250 , 256 (Ala.Crim.App.1987), quoting in turn United States v. Agurs , 427 U.S. 97 , 103, 96 S.Ct. 2392 , 49 L.Ed.2d 342 (1976) ) (some emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.