Brown v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 849 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2015
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Lisenba v. People of State of California · Turner v. Louisiana · Cecere v. United States · Gonzales v. Beto, Corrections Director · Bursten 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is difficult to see how the neutral role of the court could be more compromised, or more blurred with the prosecutor's role than when the judge serves as a witness for the state. One of the fundamental tenants of our jury system is a strong trial judge. Under that system, the trial judge is properly presented to the jury as the ultimate authority figure, imbued with unquestioned respectability and impartiality. For this reason, juries are traditionally highly sensitive to every utterance of the trial judge.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hensarling v. State
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.