United States v. Delk’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 513 · 1978
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably United States v. Frazier (2004), United States v. Gold (1984)
28 federal appellate · 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. § 2313
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Moore v. Illinois · United States v. Fairchild · United States v. Anderson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal, . . . the question boils down to whether the tag receipts were properly admitted in rebuttal. In our analysis of this problem we do not consider the favorable testimony which defense counsel had elicited on cross-examination of government witnesses. This is so because it is well settled that the purpose of rebuttal testimony is “to explain, repel, counteract, or disprove the evidence of the adverse party” .... (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a defendant opens the door to [the] line of testimony, ordinarily he may not complain about the prosecutor's decision to accept the benevolent invitation to cross the threshold.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the prosecutor's suppression of the evidence, (2) the favorable character of the suppressed evidence for the defense, and (3) the materiality of the suppressed evidence.”
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.