State v. LaMar’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 693 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 705 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Hale (2008), State v. Adams (Slip Opinion) (2015)
2 federal appellate · 693 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · State v. Jenks · Kyles v. Whitley
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 705 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he test of Brady materiality is whether there exists a reasonable probability that the result would have been different had the evidence been disclosed to the defense.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“a hostile feeling or spirit of ill will or undue friendship or favoritism toward one of the litigants or his attorney, with the formation of a fixed anticipatory judgment on the part of the judge, as contradistinguished from an open state of mind which will be governed by the law and the facts.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“The touchstone of analysis `is the fairness of the trial, not the culpability of the prosecutor.'”
12 later decisions 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.