Hayes v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
399 F.3d 972 · 2005
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably United States v. Hinkson (2009), Hovey v. Ayers (2006)
45 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable likelihood that the false testimony could have affected the judgment of the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“state court judgments of conviction and sentence carry a presumption of finality and legality and may be set aside only when a state prisoner carries his burden of proving that [his] detention violates the fundamental liberties of the person, safeguarded against state action by the Federal Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Comer v. Schriro · Comer v. Schriro“(1) the testimony (or evidence) was actually false, (2) the prosecution knew or should have known that the testimony was actually false, and (3) ... the false testimony was material.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Sivak v. Hardison · Hovey v. Ayers
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.