Brecheen v. Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 14 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 268 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Lee v. Georgia (1988), Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994)
103 federal appellate · 14 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Tumey v. State of Ohio · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites
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 268 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant's interest in a fundamentally fair trial outweighs the State's interest in holding that trial in a particular district.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Crawford v. Georgia“[A] refusal to grant a motion for change of venue may constitute a violation of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In re Google LLC“our system of law has always endeavored to prevent even the probability of unfairness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Crawford v. Georgia
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.