Brown v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 427 · 1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2001
2 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
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Estelle v. Smith · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers · Satterwhite v. Texas
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to demonstrate his sincere desire to overcome his drug addiction. Cross examination of these witnesses revealed that their opinions were based solely on what Schneider had told them. None of the witnesses conducted any type of psychological exam or background behavioral study. In response, the State called a psychiatrist who had previously examined Schneider. The psychiatrist testified that Schneider had a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. State“[T]he defendant must introduce mental-status evidence that may fairly be characterized as expert before the prosecution may respond with the results of a psychiatric examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. State“to have no more knowledge than lay witnesses on the highly technical and elusive subjects of psychology and psychiatry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan 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.