State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 271 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 275 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Ketterer (2010), State v. Perez (2009)
2 federal appellate · 271 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Kyles v. Whitley
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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to file a motion to suppress, a defendant must prove that there was a basis to suppress the evidence in question.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Griffin · State v. White“A warrantless arrest that is based upon probable cause and occurs in a public place does not violate the Fourth Amendment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown · State v. Phillips“undisclosed evidence is not material simply because it may have helped the defendant to prepare for trial.”
5 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.