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925 F.2d 596 · 1991

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
August 2016
most recently cited

15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably United States v. Payne (1995), United States v. Zagari (1997)

15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

230199120002010decided

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. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 2315

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · United Families of America v. Kendrick

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[F]avorable evidence is material, and constitutional error results from its suppression by the government, if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the trial judge's conclusion as to the effect of nondisclosure on the outcome of the trial is 'entitled to great weight.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “United States v. Provenzano, 615 F.2d 37 , 49 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 446 U.S. 953, 100 S.Ct. 2921, 64 L.Ed.2d 810 (1980), we conduct our own”
    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.