Phillips v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
632 F.2d 1019 · 1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019
11 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ill serve to maintain public confidence in the judicial process”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is at best difficult and perhaps impossible to learn from a juror's own testimony after the verdict whether he was in fact 'impartial,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the failure of the prosecutors to disclose the knowledge denied [defendant] due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Phillips · Chaney v. Brown
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.