Brown v. Konteh’s Empirical Analysis
567 F.3d 191 · 2009
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Fisher (2011), Brooks v. Tennessee (2010)
8 federal appellate · 1 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. Taylor · Schriro v. Landrigan · Knowles v. Mirzayance · State v. Johnson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even though we might have not voted to convict a defendant had we participated in jury deliberations, we must uphold the jury verdict if any rational trier of fact could have found the defendant guilty after resolving all disputes in favor of the prosecution.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. White v. Steele · Hendrix v. Palmer“that the offender had a firearm on or about the offender's person or under the offender’s control while committing the offense and displayed the firearm, brandished the firearm, indicated that the offender possessed the firearm, or used it to facilitate the offense.” The Brown Court determined the state appellate court’s determination was unreasonable as to one of the numerous victims because there was no evidence that a gun was actually used or displayed in the perpetration of the offenses against that particular victim. Id. at 214 . In contrast, the evidence here showed petitioner”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Under the “contrary to” clause, a federal habeas court may grant the writ if the state court arrives at a conclusion opposite to that reached by this Court on a question of law or if the state court decides a case differently than this Court has on a set of materially indistinguishable facts. Under the “unreasonable application” clause, a federal habeas court may grant the writ if the state court identifies the correct governing legal principle from this Court’s decisions but unreasonably applies that principle to the facts of the prisoner’s case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. Romanowski
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.