State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably State v. Marsala (1990), State v. Johnson (1991)
58 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 Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Mapp v. Ohio · Franks v. Delaware · United States v. Ventresca
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, the statute must be viewed, in light of this history, as a legislative response to fill a procedural hiatus created by the impact of Mapp v. Ohio, supra, on our state practice. It cannot be read . . . as imposing a rigid suppression requirement without regard to the entire body of search and seizure jurisprudence to which it implicitly refers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The motion shall be made before trial or hearing unless opportunity therefor did not exist or the defendant was not aware of the grounds for the motion, but the court in its discretion may entertain the motion at the trial or hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the principal purpose was to bring our procedure in line with the mandate of Mapp v. Ohio, supra. See Conn. Joint Standing Committee Hearings, Judiciary and Governmental Functions, Pt. 3, 1963 Sess., p. 875.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.