United States v. Arango’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 818 · 1988
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably United States v. Teague (1992), United States v. Terzado-Madruga (1990)
26 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evidence is material 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. A “reasonable probability” is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether outrageous government conduct exists turns on the totality of the circumstances with no single factor controlling and the defense can only be invoked in the rarest and most outrageous of circumstances. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so outrageous as to shock the universal sense of justice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.