Brady v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Smylie v. State (2005), Lannan v. State (1992)
2 federal appellate · 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 Pointer v. Texas · Mattox v. United States · Miller v. State · Commonwealth v. Willis
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have the right ... to meet the witnesses face to face....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hampton v. State · Gardner v. State“The nature of the relationship between the witness and the accused, the highly embarrassing character of the testimony and the courtroom setting itself combine to create a stressful, traumatic environment likely to make a child a reluctant, unreliable witness ... [Thirty-four states have recognized that] some measure must be taken to provide additional protection for child witnesses and ... these safeguards can be created without endangering the constitutional rights of an accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lannan v. State“Trial testimony, although naturally somewhat stressful, is not intended to be an ordeal for the witness. Rather, it is designed to be an engine for seeking and attaining truth. The revelation of an untruthful witness is properly the result of skillful cross-examination and not of a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Foster
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.