Brogdon v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 1164 · 1986
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 45 Cal. 3d 26 - People v. Dyer (1988), 123 Wash. 2d 296 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Lord (1994)
24 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Townsend v. Sain · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A State need not even undertake any sort of proportionality review of death sentences so long as the underlying sentencing scheme minimizes arbitrary and capricious sentencing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'character, prior record, or the circumstances of the offense'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barnes v. Lynaugh
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.