Putnam v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Stephan v. State (1985), Thorne v. Department of Public Safety (1989)
33 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Nobles · Douglas v. Alabama · United States v. Augenblick · Goldberg v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here it appears that the evidence was lost or destroyed in good faith, the imposition of sanctions will depend upon the degree to which the defendant has been prejudiced.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sawyer v. State · Pears v. State“After a witness called by the state has testified to direct examination, the court shall, on motion of the defendant, order the state to produce any statement of the witness in the possession of the state which relates to the subject matter as to which the witness has testified. If the entire contents of the statement relate to the subject matter of the testimony of the witness, the court shall order it to be delivered directly to the defendant for examination and use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Abdulbaqui v. State“(i) The names and addresses of persons known by the government to have knowledge of relevant facts and their written or recorded statements or summaries of statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Abdulbaqui 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.