Buie v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 10 · 1990
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States of America v. Zolton Williams (2000), United States of America v. Juan Chaparro-Alcantara Jaime Romero-Bautista (2000)
9 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood · United States v. Lovasco · Taylor v. Illinois
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must demonstrate that the absence of fundamental fairness infected the trial; the acts complained of must be of such quality as necessarily prevents a fair trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he right to present a defense, and its concomitant right to compulsory process, are not unqualified; they are subject to 'countervailing public interests,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o establish a violation of the right to present a defense based on lost evidence, a defendant must show that the evidence was material and exculpatory, and that it was of such a nature that the defendant would be unable to obtain comparable evidence by other reasonably available means ... Moreover, unless the defendant can show bad faith on the part of the state, failure to preserve potentially useful evidence does not constitute a denial of due process of law.”
1 later decision 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.