Brown v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
785 F.2d 1457 · 1986
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Busby v. City of Orlando (1991), United States v. Sherlock (1989)
37 federal appellate · 11 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 United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · United States v. Phillips
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the truth would have introduced a new source of potential bias.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a word of art that must be specifically employed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“is a word that must be specifically employed. ... It is a constitution we deal with, not semantics. `The thrust of Giglio and its progeny has been to ensure that the jury know the facts that might motivate a witness in giving testimony.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.