Smith v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
115 F.3d 818 · 1997
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Moore v. Reynolds (1998), Douglas v. Workman (2009)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Sanders v. Sullivan · Fero v. Kerby
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceedings would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the prosecution suppressed the evidence, the evidence would have been favorable to [them], and the suppressed evidence was material.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of good faith or bad faith of the prosecution.”
1 later decision 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.