United States v. Joseph’s Empirical Analysis
996 F.2d 36 · 1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 9 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Pelullo (2005), United States v. Thornton (1993)
18 federal appellate · 9 district · 11 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · Moore v. Illinois · Turner v. Louisiana · United States v. Perdomo
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should ... have known that the material at issue was in existence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a prosecutor has no actual knowledge or cause to know of the existence of Brady material in a file unrelated to the case under prosecution, a defendant, in order to trigger an examination of such unrelated files, must make a specific request for that information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would place an unreasonable burden on prosecutors for it is one thing to require honest searches, reasonable in scope, of unrelated files for specific identifiable information, but quite another thing to send prosecutors on open-ended fishing expeditions. [Ibid.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jones
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.