597 So. 2d 782 - Gorham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2016
18 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Watson v. Louisiana · Florida Bar Re Amendment to Article XI, Florida Bar Integration Rule (Rules of Discipline)
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the Government possessed evidence favorable to the defendant (including impeachment evidence); (2) that the defendant does not possess the evidence nor could he obtain it himself with any reasonable diligence; (3) that the prosecution suppressed the favorable evidence; and (4) that had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, a reasonable probability exists that the outcome of the proceedings would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. State · Jones v. State“constructive knowledge and possession of evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A `reasonable probability' is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buenoano v. State
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.