Brown v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 1547 · 1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2013
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Delaware v. Van Arsdall
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f there remains a possibility that the constitutionally-proscribed evidence impacted on the ultimate decisional process of the jury [and] ... the beneficiary of the error cannot refute that possibility beyond all reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lynds“[w]hat is important is the possibility that a witness is accusing an individual in an effort to please the prosecution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wasko v. Singletary“may be formed beneath the conscious level”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wasko v. Singletary
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.