Wood v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 1989
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Hawk · United States v. Heiden · Boggs v. State · Crockett v. State · Howard 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that it could be reasonably anticipated that the evidence sought would be exculpatory and material to appellant’s defense. ... It is not sufficient that the showing disclose merely a hoped-for conclusion from examination of the destroyed evidence, nor is it sufficient for the defendant to show only that examination of the evidence would be helpful in preparing his defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Orfield v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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