Felder v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
180 F.3d 206 · 1999
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably United States of America v. Bountaem Chanthadara (2000), United States v. Sipe (2004)
15 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Simmons v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Brady’s requirement that the prosecution disclose exculpatory evidence does extend to information that could be used to impeach government witnesses. See United States v. Bagley, 473 U.S. 667, 676 , 105 S.Ct. 3375, 3380 , 87 L.Ed.2d 481 (1985). The suppressed information, however, must still be ‘evidence’ that is ‘material either to guilt or to punishment.’ Brady, 373 U.S. at 87 , 83 S.Ct. at 1197 . Evidence is material ‘only where there exists a ‘reasonable probability’ that had the evidence been disclosed the result at trial would have been different.’ Wood v. Bartholomew, 516 U.S. 1, 5 , 116 S.Ct. 7, 10 , 133 L.Ed.2d 1 (1995).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ask only ... whether the disclosure of the evidence would have created a reasonable probability that the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Special Issue No. 1 Was the conduct of the defendant, Shozdiji-ji Shislnday also known as Danny Dean Thomas, that caused the death of the deceased committed deliberately and with the reasonable expectation that the death of the deceased or another would result? Special Issue No. 2 Is there a probability that the defendant, Shozdijiji Shislnday also known as Danny Dean Thomas, would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society? Special Issue No. 3 Do you find from the evidence, taking into consideration all of the evidence, including the circumstances of the offense, the defendant’s character and background, and the personal moral culpability of the defendant, that there is a sufficient mitigating circumstance or circumstances to warrant that a sentence of life imprisonment rather than a death sentence be imposed?”
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.