United States v. Sipe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'The materiality of Brady material depends almost entirely on the value of the evidence relative to the other evidence mustered by the state.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Floyd v. Vannoy · Floyd v. Vannoy

2. “a Brady determination is inevitably a contextual inquiry, involving questions of both law and fact. Moreover, it is intimately intertwined with the trial proceedings: because the court must judge the effect of the evidence on the jury’s verdict, the Brady decision can never be divorced from the narrative of the trial. In addition, the court must consider not simply the withheld evidence in isolation, but also the quantity and quality of other evidence in the record.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Jernigan · Banks v. Thaler

3. “[w]hen assessing the materiality of inadmissible evidence, we apply the general Brady test and “ask only ... whether the disclosure of the evidence would have created a reasonable probability that the result of the proceeding would have been different.” Because of the requirement that the outcome of the proceeding be affected, we often consider whether the suppressed, inadmissible evidence would have led to admissible evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. James Edward Mercer v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Workman v. Com.