Ex Parte Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2022
1 federal appellate · 20 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 · Boykin v. Alabama · United States v. Agurs · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hey shall not suppress facts or secrete witnesses capable of establishing the innocence of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matthew v. Johnson“the applicant's sanity at the time of the alleged offense, and of his competency to stand trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matthew v. Johnson“to defendants who plead guilty as well as to those who plead not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.