Browning v. Foltz’s Empirical Analysis
837 F.2d 276 · 1988
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Sammons (1990), William Jones v. Ml Smith Attorney General State of California (2000)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Cuyler v. Sullivan · United States v. Frady · Stirone v. United States
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.
“on objective appearance or evidence of bias, not on the subjective view of a party, although bias may be shown either by in-court statements or in opinions or orders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whenever a person has entered upon a term of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution of a party state, and whenever during the continuance of their term of imprisonment there is pending in any other party state untried indictment, information or complaint on the basis of which a detainer has been lodged against the prisoner, he shall be brought to trial within one hundred and eighty days after he shall have caused to be delivered to the prosecuting officer and the appropriate court of the prosecuting officers’ jurisdiction written notice of the place of his imprisonment and his request for a final disposition to be made on the indictment, information or complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A variance occurs when the proof introduced at trial differs materially from the facts alleged in the [information]. In contrast, an amendment involves a change, whether literal or in effect, in the terms of the [information].”
1 later decision 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.