State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State (1975), State v. McKenzie (1980)
35 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 State v. Stoddard · State v. Smith · State Ex Rel. Herman and Roy v. Powell · People v. Bellon · State v. Cates
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * to justify a homicide by self-defense, there must be evidence that the party killing acted under the influence of reasonable fear that someone was going to be murdered or seriously injured. * * * »»”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * you are to consider all of the instructions as a whole, and are to regard each in the light of all the others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In determining the effect of given instructions, all instructions must be considered as a whole and if they fairly tender the case to the jury, the fact that one or more instructions, standing alone, is not as full or as accurate as it might have been is not reversible error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Reiner
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.