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1993

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Taylor v. State (1994), Loggins v. State (2000)

1 federal appellate · 41 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Leon · Franks v. Delaware

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Nobody knows how much we have suffered over this trouble. Lord have mercy on us.”
    33 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “"`Although we have reviewed "worse" crimes of robbery-murder, the apparent cold-blooded, senseless, and unmerciful manner in which the defendant executed this crime impresses this Court as it did the trial judge. Other than the general arguments for not imposing a punishment of death in any case, we find no reason to spare the defendant's life."”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “`Tardy disclosure of Brady material is generally not reversible error unless the defendant can show that he was denied a fair trial.' ... A delay in disclosing Brady material requires reversal only if the `lateness of the disclosure so prejudiced appellant's preparation or presentation of his defense that he was prevented from receiving his constitutionally guaranteed fair trial.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.