Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 107 So. 2d 16 - Frazier v. State (1958), 167 So. 2d 858 - Reddish v. State (1964)
36 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 Ziang Sung Wan v. United States · Nickels v. State · State v. Barrington · Curry v. State · People v. Siemsen
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is so vague, inconsistent and indefinite as to mislead the accused and embarrass him in the preparation of his defense or expose him after conviction or acquittal to substantial danger of a new prosecution for the same offense.”
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.