Linroy Davis v. Louis B. Heyd, Sheriff’s Empirical Analysis
479 F.2d 446 · 1973
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Jurek v. Estelle (1980), United States v. Anderson (1978)
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Neil v. Biggers · Giglio v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question of materiality present in cases in which the accused complains of prosecutorial suppression of material evidence is.... [a] mixed question[ ] of law and fact calling ultimately for a legal determination.... and therefore [is] not entitled to a § 2254(d) presumption of validity.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so material to the guilt or innocence of the accused that he was denied a fair trial under the teachings of Brady v. Maryland. . . .”
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.