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1993

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2018

18 state decisions

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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. Agurs · California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood · Lisenba v. People of State of California

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. “" '[T]he error of failing to instruct the jury on the need for corroborative evidence is harmless when the testimony of an accomplice has in fact been corroborated. Frazier v. State , 562 So.2d 543 , 558 (Ala.Cr.App.), reversed on other grounds, 562 So.2d 560 (Ala. 1989). Accord People v. Brunner , 797 P.2d 788 , 790 (Colo.App. 1990); State v. Brown [ 187 Conn. 602 ], 447 A.2d 734 , 740 (Conn. 1982); Ali v. United States , 581 A.2d 368 , 377-78 (D.C.App. 1990), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 893 , 112 S.Ct. 259 , 116 L.Ed.2d 213 (1991); Strong v. State , 261 Md. 371 , 275 A.2d 491 , 495 (1971), vacated on other grounds, 408 U.S. 939 , 92 S.Ct. 2872 , 33 L.Ed.2d 760 (1972); State v. England , 409 N.W.2d 262 , 265 (Minn.App. 1987).' "”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “'The appellant . . . insists that because the”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “'Relying upon state constitutional law, some states hold that even in situations where defendants cannot show bad faith on the part of the state in failing to preserve material evidence, defendants may nonetheless be entitled to an adverse-inference instruction, dismissal, or new trial if they can make a sufficient showing of substantial prejudice. These states take authority from Justice Stevens's concurring opinion in Arizona v. Youngblood wherein he wrote:”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.