Miller v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.2d 1116 · 1989
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Ocampo (1991), United States v. Garcia (1994)
66 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · California v. Trombetta
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] bad faith failure to collect potentially exculpatory evidence ... violate[s] the due process clause.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'unavailable for alleged error in the interpretation or application of state law.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless a criminal defendant can show bad faith on the part of the police, failure to preserve potentially useful evidence does not constitute a denial of due process of law.”
2 later decisions 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.