Smith v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 5 district · 34 state decisions

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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[E]vidence impeaching an eyewitness may not be material if the State's other evidence is strong enough to sustain confidence in the verdict.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Anderson v. City of Rockford · Watkins v. Medeiros

2. “reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Floyd v. Vannoy · United States v. Ausby

3. “'reasonable probability' that the [trial judge] would have been [similarly] persuaded by the undisclosed evidence”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Floyd v. Vannoy · Floyd v. Vannoy