Runnels v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1992 · most notably 95 Ill. 2d 497 - People v. Cornille (1983), Boyd v. State (1992)
6 federal appellate · 22 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 Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Mooney v. Holohan · Cooper v. State of California · Miller v. Pate
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defense counsel must preserve the error by timely objecting to the comment and moving for a mistrial, the only remedy available since an admonishment to the jury would only compound the error. Hanf v. State, supra. To the extent that any prior case decided by this Court is inconsistent with the above rule, it is specifically overruled.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Runnels v. Hess · King v. State““ ‘And I submit to you that if he — that if the defendant did not rape this prosecuting witness, there would be some evidence to rebut it. There would be some evidence to rebut it. If he didn’t hit her there would be some evidence today by the defense to rebut it. If he didn’t choke her three times there would be some evidence by the defendant to rebut it. Did you hear any? Not one bit, not one bit, didn’t hear a bit. “ ‘. If it wasn’t true there would be testimony here to say that he did not rape her. There would be testimony here to say that he didn’t hit her. There would be testimony here to say that he didn’t hit her. There would be testimony here to say that he didn’t strike her and there would be testimony to show that he didn’t tear her blouse. ****** “ ‘So when you go to your jury room think in your mind, please, why wasn't there some testimony refuting this. Why wasn’t there? “ ‘. And she’s laying down there in the seat by this defendant. Is there any testimony to refute that? No, not one.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Runnels v. Hess“It is of no consequence that the falsehood bore upon the witness’ credibility rather than directly upon defendant’s guilt. A lie is a lie, no matter what its subject, and, if it is in any way relevant to the case, the district attorney had the responsibility and duty to correct what he knows to be false and elicit the truth .... That the district attorney’s silence was not the result of guile or a desire to prejudice matters little, for its impact was the same, preventing, as it did, a trial that could in any real sense be termed fair. People v. Savvides, 1 N.Y.2d 554 , 154 N.Y.S.2d 885, 887 , 136 N.E.2d 853, 854-855 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Binsz v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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