Brooks v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 12 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Furman v. Georgia (1972), Container Corp. of America v. Franchise Tax Board (1983)
45 federal appellate · 12 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Haynes v. Washington · Spano v. People of the State of New York · Brown v. State of Mississippi · Chambers v. Florida · Clewis v. Texas
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the parties agree that the punishment cell had no external witndow, that it contained no bed or other furnishings or facilities except a hole flush with the floor which served as a commode, and that during the first 14 days he lived in this cell. Brooks' only contact with the outside was an unspecified number of interviews with the prison's investigating officer. It is also agreed that while so confined Brooks was fed a "restricted diet”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Novak v. Beto“consisting, according to the testimony of the investigating officer, of 'peas and carrots in a soup form' three times daily. Brooks' more detailed description of this concoction-'they fed us four ounces of soup three times a day and eight ounces of water'-was not controverted, nor was his testimony that he was stripped naked before being thrown into the cell.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Novak v. Beto
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.