Brown v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 1142 · 1985
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Byrd v. Collins (2000), McQueen v. Scroggy (1996)
53 federal appellate · 4 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 · Glasser v. United States · Patton v. Yount · Castor v. United States · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder 28 U.S.C. § 2254 , the factual findings of the state court are presumed to be correct, unless one of the conditions set forth in 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (d)(1)—(8) is met. To overcome the presumption of correctness, the petitioner must establish by convincing evidence that the factual determination in the state court was erroneous. And the jury's resolution of questions of credibility and demeanor—and there were many in this case—is entitled to "special deference", Patton v. Yount, — U.S. —, 104 S.Ct. 2885, 2892 , 81 L.Ed.2d 847 (1984).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]s a court of review, we must draw all available inferences, and resolve all issues of credibility, in favor of the jury's verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.