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Ruiz v. Cady’s Empirical Analysis

710 F.2d 1214 · 1983

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
October 1990
most recently cited

14 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · 75 Wis. 2d 230 - Ruiz v. State · Ruiz v. Cady · Ruiz v. Cady

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a reasonable doubt [about the defendants' guilt] that did not otherwise exist ... [as] evaluated in the context of the entire record.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “it is not the responsibility of the prosecutor ... to do the work of defense counsel ...,”
    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.