United States v. Nixon’s Empirical Analysis
881 F.2d 1305 · 1989
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Carriger v. Stewart (1997), Goodwin v. Johnson (1997)
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Hullum v. United States · Brody v. Guercio · Larrison 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“43 Motions for new trial based on newly discovered evidence are generally disfavored. See United States v. Nixon, 881 F.2d 1305 , 1311 (5th Cir.1989); F ED. R. C RIM. P. 33. District courts have”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellis v. State“[T]he absence of some of the trial testimony from the report was not necessarily a reflection on the credibility of the witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williamson v. Moore
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.