State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Manalapan Realty v. Township Committee of the Township of Manalapan (1995), State v. Reed (1993)
101 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 Richardson v. Marsh · Jenkins v. Anderson · State v. Johnson · Olff v. East Side Union High School District · Dolson v. Anastasia
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f it can be inferred by the fact-finder that a reasonable person situated as the defendant, prior to arrest, would naturally have come forward and mentioned his or her involvement in the criminal episode, particularly when this is assessed against the defendant's apparent exculpatory testimony, then the failure to have done so has sufficient probative worth bearing on defendant's credibility for purposes of impeachment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[E]vidence regarding a pre-arrest silence is admissible if, when viewed objectively and neutrally in the light of all the circumstances, it generates an inference of consciousness of guilt that bears on the credibility of the defendant when measured against the defendant's apparently exculpatory testimony.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]f the trial court acts under a misconception of the applicable law,”
5 later decisions 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.