Samek v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2016
10 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood · Lindsay v. Beneficial Reinsurance Co. · United States v. Ursery
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"limited to evidence that might be expected to play a significant role in the suspect's defense. To meet this standard of constitutional materiality, evidence must both possess an exculpatory value that was apparent before the evidence was destroyed, and be of such a nature that the defendant would be unable to obtain comparable evidence by other reasonably available means."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberson v. State“evi-dentiary material of which no more can be said than that it could have been subjected to tests, the results of which might have exonerated the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberson v. State“not simply bad judgment or negligence, but rather implies the conscious doing of wrong be cause of dishonest purpose or moral obliquity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blanchard 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.