State v. Spano’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2016
2 district · 19 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 · Giglio v. United States · State v. Vigliano · State v. Taylor · State v. Reali
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due process requires that the State disclose information it possesses which is material to the defense, even where it concerns only the credibility of a State's witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]ad it been disclosed that the prosecutor had recommended, and [the witness] had received, favorable treatment in the form of a conditional dismissal of a criminal charge against her, and that at the time she testified as a State’s witness she was still in the process of achieving a complete dismissal of such charge, defendant could have attacked her credibility by suggesting a possible motive for her testimony. [State v. Spano, 69 N.J. 231, 235 , 353 A.2d 97 (1976).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.