United States v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2016
18 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. § 3500
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Jencks v. United States · Palermo v. United States · United States v. Augenblick · Goldberg 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) who within the government is responsible for the loss or destruction; (2) whether the loss or destruction was deliberate, done for an improper purpose, negligent or inadvertent; (3) the extent to which the government has promulgated and generally followed procedures designed to preserve evidence ...; (4) whether the applicable procedures were followed in the particular case; and (5) what steps were taken by the government to locate or reconstruct the missing evidence when its loss was discovered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[w]here the loss [of producible statements] is a result of bad faith or gross negligence, the trial court must exclude the witness' testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the policy of the statute, the quest for truth, is undercut as much by governmental negligence as by intentional acts of destruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.