State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A needy person . . . is entitled to be represented by an attorney to the same extent as a person having his own counsel and to be provided with the necessary services . . . of representation, including investigation and other preparation. The attorney, services and facilities and expenses . . . shall be provided at public expense for needy persons.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Brown

2. “The holding of the majority requires Brown to choose between these constitutional rights. However, it is well settled that forcing a criminal defendant to `surrender' one constitutional right `in order to assert another' is `intolerable.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Brown

3. “entitled to all services, including waivers of fees and costs, normally provided by the State of New Mexico to an indigent defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Brown