Brewer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Chaney v. State (1912), Manning v. State (1928)
42 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 Sparf v. United States · Crawford v. State · Gibson v. State · Eiland v. State · Tidwell v. State
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the accused seeks the fatal difficulty, or seeks the deceased for the purpose of provoking an encounter, and then brings it on, or if, having had a previous difficulty, he goes one or two miles and borrows a shotgun, and, returning to the road along which he knows his adversary is coming, waits till his adversary arrives, or advances to meet him, and accosts him (as defendant accosted deceased on this occasion), and, when his adversary replies and starts towards or from him, thereupon shoots and slays him, he is guilty of murder....”
1 later decision 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.