Brown v. Wj Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
701 F.2d 494 · 1983
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (2000), Barrientes v. Johnson (2000)
31 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Picard v. Connor · Beavers v. Balkcom · Jack Messelt v. State of Alabama · Hopkins v. Jarvis
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Where] a federal habeas petitioner presents newly discovered evidence or other evidence not before the state courts such as to place the case in a significantly different and stronger evi-dentiary posture than it was when the state courts considered it, the state courts must be given an opportunity to consider the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sampson v. Love · Aiken v. Spalding“An application for writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to a judgment of a State court shall not be granted unless it appears that the applicant has exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a significantly different and stronger evidentiary posture than it was before the state courts.”
1 later decision 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.