Crawford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Robinson (1996), Hawkins v. State (1983)
59 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Agurs · Jackson v. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pinkston v. State · Morris v. State“whether there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society.” 6 . The defense pointed out for the jury’s benefit that Grigson has a nickname of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Holland v. State“The waiver leg rests on the theories that defendants should not be allowed to `sandbag' trial judges and that counsel may deliberately choose, for tactical reasons, to waiver certain rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.