State v. Lovato’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Stephan v. State (1985), State v. Chouinard (1981)
49 state decisions
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 Chacon v. State · Trimble v. State · Olguin v. State · State v. Morris · State v. Garcia
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) The State either breached some duty or intentionally deprived the defendant of evidence; 2) The improperly “suppressed” evidence must have been material; and 3) The suppression of this evidence prejudiced the defendant.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riggs · State v. Chavez
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.