Brown v. Chaney’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 12 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2009 · most notably United States v. Kendall (1985), 705 So. 2d 307 - Holland v. State (1997)
68 federal appellate · 12 district · 30 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Moore v. Illinois
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pursuant to the Judgment entered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit December 17, 1984, Judgment is hereby entered that the writ of habeas corpus is denied but that, determining the case as law and justice require, the death sentence of petitioner heretofore imposed is adjudged invalid under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and the execution of the Petitioner under this invalid death sentence is enjoined; and that the judgment is without prejudice to further proceedings by the State for re-determination of the sentence on the conviction, at which proceedings the petitioner is afforded an opportunity to present all evidence relevant to mitigating circumstances or to the aggravating circumstances alleged, including the withheld evidence discussed herein, along with any other evidence relevant to the sentencing proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chaney v. Brown“First, where the prosecutor has knowingly used perjured testimony, the judgment must be set aside “if there is any reasonable likelihood that the false testimony could have affected the judgment of the jury.” Second, where defendant has made a specific pretrial request for exculpatory evidence, the judgment must be set aside if “the suppressed evidence might have affected the outcome of the trial.” Third, where defendant has made “a general request for Brady material,” or has made no request at all, the judgment must be set aside “if the omitted evidence creates a reasonable doubt that did not otherwise exist.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the prosecutor notice of exactly what the defense desired,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bowen v. Maynard
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.