Brownlow v. Groose’s Empirical Analysis
66 F.3d 997 · 1995
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2017
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 North Carolina v. Alford · Coleman v. Thompson · Schlup v. Delo · Nave v. Delo
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An Alford plea allows a defendant to plead guilty and consent to imposition of a sentence even though he may continue to proclaim his innocence. In such circumstances, the court accepting the plea must determine that there is 'strong evidence of actual guilt.' North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25, 37 , 91 S.Ct. 160, 167 , 27 L.Ed.2d 162 (1970).” Brownlow v. Groose, 66 F.3d 997 , 998 n. 2 (8th Cir.1995), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 116 S.Ct. 1049 , 134 L.Ed.2d 194 (1996). 2 . Despite the court's statement that it is not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“based on new evidence, that ‘a constitutional violation has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pitts v. Norris
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.