Kyles v. Whitley’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2,498 federal appellate · 515 district · 3,043 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8,914 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably United States v. Dominguez Benitez (2004), Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006)
2,498 federal appellate · 515 district · 3,043 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
reviewedLindsey v. King (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Leon · Kotteakos v. United States
Cited together with Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Agurs · Giglio 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 8,914 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the favorable evidence could reasonably be taken to put the whole case in such a different light as to undermine confidence in the verdict.”
650 later decisions quote this exact passage“if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
275 later decisions quote this exact passage“convince us that 'there is a reasonable probability' that the result of the trial would have been different if the [allegedly suppressed and misrepresented filmed interview] had been disclosed to the defense.”
15 later decisions 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.