McDaniel v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 2 district · 454 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 638 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably 176 L. Ed. 2d 678 - Renico v. Lett (2010), United States v. Nevils (2010)
71 federal appellate · 2 district · 454 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBrown v. Farwell (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Lockhart v. Nelson · Brown v. Farwell
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 638 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must consider all of the evidence admitted by the trial court, regardless of whether that evidence was admitted erroneously.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.