United States v. Bagley’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4,185 federal appellate · 655 district · 5,701 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14,071 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Murray v. Carrier (1986), Kyles v. Whitley (1995)
4,185 federal appellate · 655 district · 5,701 state decisions — followed in 49 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Agurs
Cited together with Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Kyles v. Whitley · Strickland v. Washington
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 14,071 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1,152 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution.”
103 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“had the defense not been misled by the prosecutor's incomplete response.”
59 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.