United States v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.2d 397 · 1978
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably United States v. Welch (1996), Commonwealth v. Wilson (1980)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Costello v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n undisclosed person who confidentially volunteers material information of violations of the law to officers charged with enforcement of that law. As we understand the term, persons who supply information only after being interviewed by police officers, or who give information as witnesses during the course of an investigation, are not informers. [Footnotes omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bogard“Material evidence is that evidence which `on a consideration of the entire record ... "creates a reasonable doubt that did not otherwise exist.”
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.