United States v. Rivalta’s Empirical Analysis
925 F.2d 596 · 1991
Citation profile
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
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.
“[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“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“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.