United States v. Petrillo’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 85 · 1987
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably United States v. Thai (1994), United States v. Morrison (1998)
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“additional evidence tending further to impeach the credibility of a witness whose character had already been shown to be questionable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the impeachment which the [previously undisclosed] evidence would have produced was already, in substance, before the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.