State v. Chouinard’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Alberico (1993), State v. Alberico (1993)
4 federal appellate · 100 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 · Giglio v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois
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 106 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.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riggs · State v. Chavez“[W]here the loss of evidence is known before trial there are two alternatives for the trial court: exclusion of all evidence which the lost evidence might have impeached, or admission with full disclosure of the loss and its relevance and import.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Broad discretion in the admission or exclusion of expert evidence will be sustained unless manifestly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alberico
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.