State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Marshall (1997), State v. Afanador (1997)
131 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 California v. Green · Caldwell v. Mississippi · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Delaware v. Fensterer · Schad v. Arizona
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he significance of the own-conduct determination in triggering the penalty phase supports the conclusion that jurors must be instructed on the nonunanimity option.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Mejia · State v. Koskovich“`is not an element of the offense of murder [but is] merely a triggering device for the death-penalty phase of the trial.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cooper · State v. Mejia“its determination establishes whether that defendant will be eligible for the death penalty. Although the consequences of the own-conduct determination and the penalty-phase verdict are not identical, the analogy is compelling. In the context of determining whether a jury should be informed of its non-unanimous option, any distinction is inconsequential. [Id. at 516-17.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.