Hampton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the State failed to disclose evidence, regardless of the prosecution’s good or bad faith; (2) the withheld evidence is favorable to him; (3) the evidence is material, that is, there is a reasonable probability that had the evidence been disclosed, the outcome of the trial would have been different.”

   10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Anthony Jason Kelly v. State · 222 W. Va. 248 - State v. Hawk

2. “In the present case, the court of appeals did not analyze the prosecutor’s failure to timely disclose the existence of the supplementary report in light of all the other evidence adduced at trial. In particular, the court did not discuss the report’s materiality in light of appellant’s own videotaped statement admitting that he alone had shot Mr. Nance. ... The reviewing court’s analysis upon remand should consider this properly admitted evidence as well as the remainder of the evidence.... Hampton, 86 S.W.3d at 612-13 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hampton v. State

3. “The meaning of words and phrases used in a statute is a question of pure law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. LaRue