Lawrence v. Lensing’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.3d 255 · 1994
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably United States v. Infante (2005), United States v. O'Keefe (1997)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · United States v. Dunnigan
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Brady claims involve 'the discovery, after trial of information which had been known to the prosecution but unknown to the defense.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the defendant received the material in time to put it to effective use at trial, his conviction should not be reversed simply because it was not disclosed as early as it might have and, indeed, should have been.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]vidence is material only if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
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.