Brown v. Borg’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 1011 · 1991
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably 22 Cal. 4th 596 - People v. Sakarias (2000), Williams v. Calderon (1995)
16 federal appellate · 5 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Giglio 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he force of a prosecutor's argument can enhance immeasurably the impact of false or inadmissible evidence.”
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.