Martinez v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 184 · 1980
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably United States v. Perdomo (1991), In re Brown (1998)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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 · Giglio v. United States · Wingo v. Wedding · Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The duty to produce requested evidence falls on the state; there is no suggestion in Brady that different 'arms’ of the government are severable entities.... 'The duty to disclose is that of the state, which ordinarily acts through the prosecuting attorney.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he rule of Brady would be thwarted if a prosecutor were free to ignore specific requests for material information obtainable by the prosecutor from a related governmental entity, though unobtainable by the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briggs v. Raines“the deception which results from negligent nondisclosure is no less damaging than that deception which is a product of guile, and such negligent nondisclosure entitles a defendant to relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Austin v. McKaskle
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.