State v. Matafeo’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Illinois v. Fisher (2004), State v. Morales (1995)
88 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 · United States v. Carlton E. Bryant, United States of America v. William E. Turner
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n certain circumstances, regardless of good or bad faith, the State may lose or destroy material evidence which is 'so critical to the defense as to make a criminal trial fundamentally unfair' without it.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tooher · State v. Alston“has been incorporated into the Hawaii due process jurisprudence,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Birano v. State. · State v. Diaz“[C]entral to the protections of due process is the right to be accorded a meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Birano v. State. · Meyer 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.