Bowen v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 593 · 1986
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 13 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Kyles v. Whitley (1995), Sanders v. Ratelle (1994)
41 federal appellate · 13 district · 16 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. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Townsend v. Sain
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A common trial tactic of defense lawyers is to discredit the caliber of the investigation or the decision to charge the defendant, and we may consider such use in assessing a possible Brady violation”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Kyles v. Whitley · Floyd v. Vannoy“As the State has reminded us, a Brady inquiry is grounded in an “overriding concern with the justice of the finding of guilt.” Agurs, 427 U.S. at 112 , 96 S.Ct. at 2401 . On the state of the evidence, the Lee Crowe material creates reasonable doubt that Bowen committed the Guest House murders. Additionally, in the hands of the defense, it could have been used to uncover other leads and defense theories and to discredit the police investigation of the murders.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.