United States v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 439 · 1992
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Martin (1995), United States v. Dorlouis (1997)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 3500
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the prosecution used perjured testimony; (2) the prosecution knew or should have known of the perjury; and (3) there is a 'reasonable likelihood' that the perjured testimony could have affected the jury's judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[N]o constitutional violation occurs when the government has no reason to believe that the testimony was false.”
1 later decision 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.