United States of America v. Armando Oliveros’s Empirical Analysis
275 F.3d 1299 · 2001
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023
4 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 United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Stirone v. United States · Zadvydas v. Davis · Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairss v. Klamath Water Users Protective Association
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When it comes to a witness' motive to lie, however, what counts is not the actual extent of the benefit the witness has received or will receive, but the witness' belief about what he is getting.... The bias of a witness is a subjective fact influenced by that witness' beliefs about the benefit he will receive if he testifies in a particular way and the value of it to him, which is measured by what he thinks will happen if he does not receive the benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rivera v. State“[when it comes to a witness' motive to lie, ... what counts is not the actual extent of the benefit the witness has received or will receive, but the witness' belief about what he is getting”
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.