United States v. Curran’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.2d 260 · 1972
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. Agurs (1976), United States v. Stofsky (1975)
23 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Sweet v. United States · Larrison v. United States · Gilbert v. California · United States v. S. Lawrence Kahn, Arthur B. Sachs and M. Prial Curran · United States v. Echeles
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not favored by the courts and are viewed with great caution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To warrant granting a motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, it must be shown (1) that the evidence was discovered since the trial; (2) that the evidence could not have been discovered sooner with the exercise of due diligence; (3) that the evidence is not merely cumulative or impeaching; (4) that the evidence is so material that it probably would produce a different verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The thrust of our inquiry is whether the board discretion, which the trial judge wisely has in this situation, has been abused.”
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.