Brown v. Rc Lee’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “regularly and consistently applied by the state court to a particular type of federal constitutional claim,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Reid v. True I · Hedrick v. True

2. “At approximately 5:47 a.m. on the morning of March 6, 1983, a Zip Mart convenience store on Main Street in Williamston, North Carolina, where Ms. Dixon was supposed to be working as a clerk, was reported empty. A patrolling police officer had seen Ms. Dixon in the store less than thirty minutes prior to the report. Money from the cash register and a store safe was missing, as was Ms. Dixon’s automobile. A search for Ms. Dixon was immediately begun. At about 6:20 a.m., a police officer spotted Ms. Dixon’s automobile traveling on a nearby road. The automobile was stopped by police officers, and Brown, who was driving alone in the vehicle, was immediately placed under arrest and advised of his rights. A .32 caliber six-shot revolver, a paper bag containing approximately $90 in cash and change, and a change purse containing Ms. Dixon’s drivers license and social security card were found in the automobile. A pair of ski gloves and a toboggan cap with eye holes cut out of it were found on Brown’s person. The exterior of the car was partly covered with fresh mud. According to the police officers, Brown admitted that he robbed the Zip Mart and fled in Ms. Dixon’s car, but claimed that Ms. Dixon was unharmed when he left the store. At approximately 4:00 p.m. that afternoon, Ms. Dixon’s body was found on a muddy logging road in a rural area outside Williamston. Forensic pathology and firearm tests revealed that Ms. Dixon had been shot six times with the .32 caliber revolver that police”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 135 F. App'x 618 - Brown v. Polk

3. “consistent or regular application of a state rule of procedural default does not require that the state court show an undeviating adherence to such rule admitting of no exception so long as the rule has as a general rule been applied in the vast majority of cases.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. McNeill v. Polk