State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Engle v. Isaac (1982), State v. Whistnant (1980)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 232 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Turner v. United States · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Sansone v. United States · Leland v. Oregon
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 244 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The test for determining whether one violation is a lesser included offense in another violation is whether it is possible to commit the greater offense, in the manner described in the information or bill of particulars, without having first committed the lesser. If it is possible, then the lesser violation is not an included crime.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morin · State v. Redmon“a rational basis for an acquittal on the offense charged and a conviction on the included offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Lode
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.