Hemphill v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
392 F.2d 45 · 1968
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably United States v. Torres (1990), United States v. Fioravanti (1969)
69 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Stack v. Boyle · Cree v. Goldstein · United States v. Debrow · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Acquisition of evidentiary detail is not the function of the bill of particulars.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * The assertion that the government should have informed the defendant prior to trial of the criminal record of the government’s witnesses is utterly lacking in merit, and requires no further comment. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'An application for relief under the discovery rules ... is a matter within the sound discretion of the district court and is reviewable only for an abuse of discretion.'”
2 later decisions 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.