Consalvo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · Jones v. State · 622 So. 2d 982 - Huff v. State · Sochor 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, recanting testimony is exceedingly unreliable, and it is the duty of the court to deny a new trial where it is not satisfied that such testimony is true. Especially is this true where the recantation involves a confession of perjury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]bsent an abuse of discretion, a trial court's decision on a motion based solely on newly discovered evidence [including a witness's newly recanted testimony] will not be overturned on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.