Wood v. Bartholomew’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
147 federal appellate · 19 district · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 486 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Calderon v. Thompson (1998), United States v. Perez (2002)
147 federal appellate · 19 district · 116 state decisions — followed in 16 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
reviewedBartholomew v. Wood (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Kyles v. Whitley · 98 Wash. 2d 173 - State v. Bartholomew
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 486 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.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“based on mere speculation, in violation of the standards we have established.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]t is not `reasonably likely' that disclosure of the polygraph results — inadmissible under state law — would have resulted in a different outcome at trial.”
5 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.