Brady v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Witt v. State, Department of Corrections (2003), Kaiser v. Sakata (2002)
1 district · 38 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited · Howlett Ex Rel. Howlett v. Rose · Heyer Products Company v. United States · Henry S. Bloomgarden v. Charles B. Coyer
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allege no broken promise about a specific process of negotiation, for the State made none.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“policy-level (or 'diseretionary') decisions about whether to undertake activities ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[dJespite our solicitude for pro se litigants,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.