materiality
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 405 U.S. 150 - Giglio v. United States · 1972Most cited · 12,139 citing opinions
Brady—credibility evidence
When the 'reliability of a given witness may well be determinative of guilt or innocence,' nondisclosure of evidence affecting credibility falls within this general rule. A new trial is required if 'the false testimony could . . . in any reasonable likelihood have affected the judgment of the jury . . .
How often courts cite the case defining “materiality”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “materiality” — 12,121 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.