Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Anderson v. State (1922), Commonwealth v. Murphy (1933)
31 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 Levison v. State · Thomas v. State · James v. State · James v. State · Banks v. State
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is always permissible for a defendant accused of a specific crime, to show that another, and not he was the guilty party; but it is not competent for the accused to show, merely, that another was suspected of the commission of the crime.”
1 later decision 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.