Rector v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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

1. “The heart of the holding in Brady is the prosecution’s suppression of evidence, in the face of a defense production request, where the evidence is favorable to the accused and is material either to guilt or to punishment. Important, then, are (a) suppression by the prosecution after a request by the defense, (b) the evidence’s favorable character for the defense, and (c) the materiality of the evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Richardson v. State

2. “That is, the State may not rely on evidence that another with whom the defendant was acting acted deliberately and with a reasonable expectation that death would result_ The jury must determine whether appellant’s own culpable conduct which contributed to the deceased’s death was committed deliberately and with the reasonable expectation that death would result, [citations omitted] (emphasis supplied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Belyeu v. State

3. “Did you see two other black dudes around here?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rector v. Johnson