United States v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 1239 · 1976
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably United States v. Anderson (1978), United States v. Heath (1978)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Mooney v. Holohan
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In gauging the nondisclosure in terms of due process, the focus must be on the essential fairness of the procedure and not on the astuteness of either counsel. . And it makes no difference if the withholding is by officials other than the prosecutor. The police are also part of the prosecution, and the taint on the trial is no less if they, rather than the State’s Attorney, were guilty of the nondisclosure. If the police allow the State’s Attorney to produce evidence pointing to guilt without informing him of other evidence in their possession which contradicts this inference, state officers are practicing deception not only on the State’s Attorney but on the court and the defendant. “The crudest lies are often told in silence.” If the police silence as to the existence of [inducements] resulted from negligence rather than guile, the deception is no less damaging.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he prosecution allowed a false impression to be created at trial when the truth would have directly impugned the veracity of its key witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“denial of the fundamental fairness required by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.”
2 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.