Brown Et Al. v. Wainwright, Corrections Secretary’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 274 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2000 · most notably Pulley v. Harris (1984), Ford v. Wainwright (1986)
27 federal appellate · 92 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Estelle v. Smith · Gardner v. Florida · Proffitt v. Florida
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 274 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The 'tainted' information we are charged with reviewing was, as counsel concedes, in every instance obtained to deal with newly-articulated procedural standards.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“non-record information we may have seen, even though never presented to or considered by the judge, the jury, or counsel, plays no role in capital sentence 'review.' " 392 So.2d at 1332-33. Yet at the same time the court, citing Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586 , 98 S.Ct. 2954, 57 L.Ed.2d 973 (1978), and Gardner v. Florida, 430 U.S. 349 , 97 S.Ct. 1197, 51 L.Ed.2d 393 (1977), stated that "[t]he 'tainted' information we are charged with reviewing was ... in every instance obtained to deal with newly-articulated procedural standards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ford v. Strickland“engaged in the continuing practice of requesting and receiving information concerning capital appellants which was not presented at trial and not a part of the trial record or record on appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.