United States v. Scheer’s Empirical Analysis
168 F.3d 445 · 1999
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Byrd v. Collins (2000), Anthony Keith Johnson v. State of Alabama (2001)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Kyles v. Whitley · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · United States v. Noriega
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.
“withholding information regarding the prosecutor's threatening remarks to a key prosecution witness, the government failed to divulge material impeachment evidence that was, in essence, exculpatory by virtue of its ability to cast substantial doubt on the credibility of the witness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“could reasonably be taken to put the whole case in such a different light as to undermine confidence in the [outcome].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moon v. Head
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.