State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood · Powers v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a spoliation instruction is improper when 'the destruction was a matter of routine with no fraudulent intent,' it is appropriate when 'the act was intentional or intended to suppress the truth.'”
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.