Brooks v. Tennessee

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that “this court views with great suspicion the recantation testimony of trial witnesses in postconviction proceedings”
• “[T]he Brady standard for materiality is less demanding than the ethical obligations imposed on a prosecutor.”
• “Examples [of some objective factor external to the defense] include ‘a showing that the factual or legal basis for a claim was not reasonably available’ previously, or ‘some interference by officials.’” (emphasis added) (citation omitted)
• where witness was impeached by prior convictions and for his actions as a known jailhouse snitch, withheld evidence of mental illness and specific exploits as an informant did not rise to the level of a Brady violation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kenneth Jefferson v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-09-12· cited 136×
• United States v. Russell Collins
  Sixth Circuit· 2015-08-24· cited 117×
• Montgomery v. Bobby
  Sixth Circuit· 2011-08-22· cited 103×
• Samuel Moreland v. Margaret Bradshaw
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-11-15· cited 102×
• United States v. Martin Lewis
  Sixth Circuit· 2014-08-13· cited 102×
• Jesse Peoples v. Blaine Lafler
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-10-30· cited 67×
• Freddie McNeill, Jr. v. Margaret Bagley
  Sixth Circuit· 2021-08-20· cited 59×
• Andrew Thomas v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 2017-02-24· cited 47×
• Amos v. Renico
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-06-27· cited 41×
• Arthur Bell v. Carol Howes
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-12-19· cited 26×
• George Clark v. Noah Nagy
  Sixth Circuit· 2019-08-12· cited 22×
• Johnson v. United States
  N.D. Iowa· 2012-03-22· cited 21×
• Timothy Etherton v. Steven Rivard
  Sixth Circuit· 2015-09-02· cited 15×
• Drain v. Woods
  E.D. Michigan· 2012-11-02· cited 9×
• In re Kareem Jackson
  Sixth Circuit· 2021-09-02· cited 8×
• Apanovitch v. Bobby
  Sixth Circuit· 2011-06-08· cited 5×
• Tuma v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-06-12· cited 5×
• United States v. Lavonce Makiri Smith
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-06-09· cited 3×
• Jeffrey Clark v. Louisville-Jefferson Cnty. Metro Gov't
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-03-07· cited 2×
• United States v. McCafferty
  N.D. Ohio· 2011-07-14· cited 1×

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 11,658×
• United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 9,383×
• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Schlup v. Delo
  Supreme Court· 1995-01-23· cited 7,671×
• Murray v. Carrier
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 7,499×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Kyles v. Whitley
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-19· cited 6,003×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Strickler v. Greene
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-17· cited 4,383×
• Napue v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 4,234×
• Massiah v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-05-18· cited 3,189×
• Mooney v. Holohan
  Supreme Court· 1935-01-21· cited 1,837×
• Banks v. Dretke
  Supreme Court· 2004-02-24· cited 1,098×
• Cone v. Bell
  Supreme Court· 2009-04-28· cited 1,055×
• United States v. Henry
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-16· cited 1,013×
• Robert Glen Coe, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Ricky Bell, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-02-23· cited 698×