Lugo v. Munoz’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 7 · 1982
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. O'Dell (1986), United States v. Willis (1993)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Barrett v. United States · Draper v. Washington · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fact that such evidence was available to the prosecutor and not submitted to the defense places it in a different category than if it had simply been discovered from a neutral source after trial.... If the standard applied to the usual motion for new trial based on newly discovered evidence were the same when the evidence was in the [government’s] possession as when it was found in a neutral source, there would be no special significance to the prosecutor’s obligation to serve the cause of justice.”
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.