Williams v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There is little in the prosecutor’s file which might not ‘aid’ in some remote or fanciful way the defense of a case. Unless we are prepared to hold that the prosecutor’s file shall be opened to the defense upon demand, which may, indeed, be in the wind, we are not prepared to bring the suggested expansion within the constitutional duty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hall

2. “In so holding we follow the teachings of Brady v. Maryland, supra, but without the suggested expansion that the constitutional duty there enunciated encompasses as well any evidence which might conceivably aid the defense in the preparation of its case. 473 F.2d at 1054 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Evans v. Janing