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East v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

123 F.3d 235 · 1997

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
December 2009
most recently cited

14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Kyles v. Whitley · Lindh v. Murphy · Dennis v. Dennis

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “when the withheld evidence would seriously undermine the testimony of a key witness on an essential issue or there is no strong corroboration, the withheld evidence has been found to be material”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “only where there exists a 'reasonable probability' that had the evidence been disclosed the result at trial would have been different.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “experienced bizarre sexual hallucinations and believed that unidentified individuals were attempting to kill her.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.