Spence v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 989 · 1996
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Byrd v. Collins (2000), United States v. Warshak (2010)
43 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
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Kyles v. Whitley
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he question is not whether the defendant would more likely than not have received a different verdict with the evidence, but whether in its absence he received a fair trial, understood as a trial resulting in a verdict worthy of confidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]vidence ismaterial only if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Felder v. Johnson · Hill v. Johnson“`[I]nadmissible evidence may be material under Brady.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Workman v. Com. · Felder v. Johnson
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.