Brown v. Vail’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3596 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 21 U.S.C. § 829 (§ 309 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 885 (§ 515 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Heckler v. Chaney · Franklin v. Massachusetts · Baze v. Rees · 118 Wash. 2d 801 - Cowiche Canyon Conservancy v. Bosley · United States v. Bestfoods
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he superintendent’s supervisory role as to executions plainly encompasses decision-making powers about how lethal injection is to be accomplished.”); Sims v. State, 754 So.2d 657, 670 (Fla.2000) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. State
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.