United States v. Devlin’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 1360 · 1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2012
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Ross v. Moffitt · Rosales-Lopez v. United States · Britt v. North Carolina · ASARCO Inc. v. Kadish
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`where a mistrial has occurred, courts have generally regarded a transcript of the prior trial as a tool `reasonably necessary' to an effective defense and have deemed it error to refuse to provide the defendant with such a transcript.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To bemost effective to [the defendant], the transcript should have been made available before the trial so that his counsel could prepare his strategy. The transcript's value is lost if Devlin's counsel must rely on his memory or notes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n cases whose outcome turns on witness credibility, the potential value of a transcript for impeachment purposes is obvious.”
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.