United States v. Carlton E. Bryant, United States of America v. William E. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 642 · 1971
Citation profile
274 federal appellate · 25 district · 240 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 598 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably California v. Trombetta (1984), United States v. Haldeman (1976)
274 federal appellate · 25 district · 240 state decisions — followed in 33 states
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 · Katz v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Mooney v. Holohan · Lopez 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 598 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. at 647. Examining the issue in the context of the Jencks Act, Brady, and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the court concluded that good faith would excuse loss of evidence, but cautioned: 26 An exception for good faith loss of important evidence must not be allowed to swallow the discovery rules, and the burden of explanation on the Government must be a heavy one; but criminal convictions otherwise based on sufficient evidence may be permitted to stand so long as the Government made”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolutely crucial to the question of appellants' guilt or innocence,”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the degree of negligence or bad faith involved, the importance of the evidence lost, and the evidence of guilt adduced a trial.”
14 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.