Brofford v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.2d 845 · 1985
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Gall v. Parker (2000), Buell v. Mitchell (2001)
30 federal appellate · 8 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Stone v. Powell · Irvin v. Dowd · Murphy v. Florida
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is plainly a question of historical fact: did a juror swear that he could set aside any opinion he might hold and decide the case on the evidence, and should the juror's protestation of impartiality have been believed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Friedrich v. Echols“The nature of the publicity and whether it is the sort that could be laid aside by jurors ... is the crucial factor to be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deel v. Jago“unless the fundamental fariness of the trial has been so impugned as to amount to a denial of due process.”
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.