United States v. Gaston’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 607 · 1979
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably 38 Cal. 3d 658 - People v. Memro (1985), Washington v. Watkins (1981)
52 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. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Jencks v. United States · Brewer v. United States
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)f the omitted evidence creates a reasonable doubt that did not otherwise exist, constitutional error has been committed. This means that the omission must be evaluated in the context of the entire record. If there is no reasonable doubt about guilt, whether or not the additional evidence is considered, there is no justification for a new trial. On the other hand, if the verdict is already of questionable validity, additional evidence of relatively minor importance might be sufficient to create a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“requested any prior statements of witnesses who had testified, including any interview reports prepared by the FBI agents who investigated the case on FD-302 forms (commonly called 302s), to which he might be entitled under the Jencks Act, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3500, 14 or under Brady.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chaney v. Brown“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.