Coleman v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 1227 · 1986
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 7 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994), Samarzia v. Clark County (1989)
98 federal appellate · 7 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Strickland v. Washington · Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Young · United States v. Cronic · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'is directly related to the information the defendant ... supplie[s].'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[Tjhey try to put the responsibility on you, like it’s all your fault.... [L]et me make it real clear that you’re not writing the verdict in this case. Don’t — don’t be mistaken into believing that it’s your responsibility that this happened, that you’re, you’re writing the verdict. I, I say to you, this man wrote the verdict on February 9th, and all those days after when he got out of jail and went on [sic] spree of knifing and kidnapping and killing. He wrote the verdict. This man. He wrote it in blood over and over.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[r]emarks that would cause us to reverse in a direct appeal of a federal conviction are not necessarily grounds for reversal when spoken in state courts.”
2 later decisions 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.