Brown v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
104 F.3d 744 · 1997
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States v. Gaitan-Acevedo (1998), Trevino v. Johnson (1999)
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Teague v. Lane · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Kyles v. Whitley
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an application of law to facts is unreasonable only when it can be said that reasonable jurists considering the question would be of one view that the state court ruling was incorrect. In other words, we can grant habeas relief only if a state court decision is so clearly incorrect that it would not be debatable among reasonable jurists.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unpublished opinions issued before January 1, 1996 are precedent”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a downward swing in the prosecution’s burden of proof: the instruction began appropriately with ‘reasonable’ doubt, moved to ‘grave uncertainty,’ and then to ‘substantial’ doubt, and concluded by suggesting that the jury could convict on the basis of a ‘moral certainty’ rather than an evidentiary certainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ramirez v. Hatcher
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.