In re Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 22 Cal. 4th 900 - People v. Jenkins (2000), State v. Iacona (2001)
155 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
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Leon · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The scope of [the Brady ] disclosure obligation extends beyond the contents of the prosecutor's case file and encompasses the duty to ascertain as well as divulge 'any favorable evidence known to others acting on the government's behalf.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“any favorable evidence known to the others acting on the government's behalf is imputed to the prosecution”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`favorable evidence known to ... others acting on the government's behalf....”
3 later decisions 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.