Van Byrd v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Drew v. State (1987), Allridge v. State (1988)
34 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 Romo v. State · Whitmore v. State · Eddlemon v. State · Williams v. State · Smith v. State
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) that the evidence was unknown or unavailable to the movant before trial; 2) that the movant’s failure to discover or obtain it was not due to want of diligence on his part; 3) that its materiality was such as would probably bring about a different result at another trial; and 4) that it was competent, not merely cumulative, corroborative, or impeaching.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Drew v. State · Houston v. State“Even where the pre-trial identification procedure was impermissibly suggestive, the in-court testimony of the identification witness would still be admissible as long as the record clearly reveals that the witness’ prior identification of the accused was sufficient to serve as an independent origin for the in-court identification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chastain 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.