Brown v. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Westbrook v. Zant (1983), Presnell v. Kemp (1988)
6 federal appellate · 20 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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Price v. Johnston · Salinger v. Loisel · Ferguson v. Georgia · Wong Doo v. United States · Pitts v. Glass
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The writ of habeas corpus is not to be used as a means of obtaining a second appeal. [Cit.] After review by an appellate court, the same issues will not be reviewed on habeas corpus. [Cit.] The appellate courts exist to review appeals. It is not the function of state habeas corpus courts to review issues already decided by an appellate court. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Stinson“The writ of habeas corpus is not to be used as a means of obtaining a second appeal. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turpin v. Todd
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.