Wright v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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

1. “(1) that the Government possessed evidence favorable to the defendant (including impeachment evidence); (2) that the defendant did not possess the evidence nor could he have obtained it himself with any reasonable diligence; (3) that the prosecution suppressed the favorable evidence; and (4) that had the evidence been revealed to the defense, there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of the proceedings would have been different.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Phillip Curtis Grace · United States v. Felix A. Hernandez

2. “Inadmissible evidence may be material if the evidence would have led to admissible evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Workman v. Com. · Felder v. Johnson

3. “"[A]round 10:30 on the morning of December 1, 1977, Mr. Green [one of the victims] had cashed checks in the amount of $900 at a local bank and placed the money in a red bank bag. Shortly before noon, it was discovered that Mr. and Mrs. Green had been tied together and shot in their Western Auto Store in Mount Vernon. The money was missing from the cash register, and a television, a stereo component system, and several watches were also missing from the store. Mr. Green was not wearing the Seiko watch he had been wearing earlier that morning. His family had given him this watch as a birthday present on November 30, 1977. "Doris Lacey Lambert testified that, on the 2nd day of December of 1977, the defendant told her that `he had went out with some of his friends,' `Craig, Roger, and "Gill Man,'" to Mount Vernon and that `he killed two people' with a gun in a Western Auto Store. "On cross examination, Ms. Lambert admitted that she had one child by the defendant but denied making the statement that `before she would see another woman have him she would see him dead' after she learned that the defendant was engaged to another woman. She admitted that she had been convicted of shoplifting. "Roger McQueen testified that he had been convicted of armed robbery and was going to plead guilty to first degree murder for the Mount Vernon killings. He `considered himself a guilty participant in this murder.' McQueen stated that he and Craig lived in the same apartment complex in Mobile. On ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 766 So. 2d 213 - Wright v. State