Brady v. Samaha’s Empirical Analysis
667 F.2d 224 · 1981
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Bates (1990), Douglas v. United States (1985)
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Green v. United States · Sumner v. Mata · United States v. Jorn · Arizona v. Washington · Wade v. Hunter
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A precipitate decision, reflected by a rapid sequence of events culminating in a declaration of mistrial, would tend to indicate insufficient concern for the defendant's constitutional protection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““‘the State with all its resources and power should not be allowed to make repeated attempts to convict an individual for an alleged offense, thereby subjecting him to embarrassment, expense and ordeal and compelling him to live in a continuing state of anxiety and insecurity, as well as enhancing the possibility that even though innocent he may be found guilty.’””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bertrand“When a mistrial is granted over a defendant's objection, the prosecution has a heavy burden to show that the mistrial was justified by manifest necessity.”
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.