Quinones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 168 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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he 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 constitu tional sense ... In determining materiality, the omission must be evaluated in the context of the entire record, and constitutional error is committed only if the omitted evidence creates a reasonable doubt that did not otherwise exist.”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Scaggs v. State · King v. State

2. “[t]he jury can readily grasp the logical relevance of mitigating evidence to the issue of whether there is a probability of future criminal acts of violence.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Black v. State · James v. State

3. “[A]ny designated documents, papers, written statement of the defendant, (except written statements of witnesses and except the work product of counsel in the case and their investigators and their notes or report), books, accounts, letters, photographs, objects or tangible things not privileged, which constitute or contain evidence material to any matter in volved in the action and which are in the possession, custody or control of the State or any of its agencies.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grantham v. State · Mead v. State