Jones v. McCaughtry’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 473 · 1992
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 166 Ill. 2d 310 - People v. Newberry (1995), United States of America v. Juan Chaparro-Alcantara Jaime Romero-Bautista (2000)
16 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal · California v. ARC America Corp.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'official animus' or a 'conscious effort to suppress exculpatory evidence,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“be of such a nature that the defendant would be unable to obtain comparable evidence by other reasonably available means.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.