Link v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.2d 207 · 1965
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably United States v. Franks (1975), Levin v. Katzenbach (1966)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · International Ass'n of Machinists v. Duckworth · Smith v. United States · Mesarosh v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence material to guilt is, we think, evidence which is of probative character on that question. As to evidence not of that character and having admissibility only for the purpose of impeachment or credibility attack, nondisclosure or suppression, to be violative of due process, would in our opinion, unless the situation is otherwise tainted, have to be of such inherent significance as to represent fundamental unfairness.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In short, they affect `the honor and integrity of the sovereign's administration of justice ... because they are subversive of the institution of fair trial itself.'”
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.