Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1991
1 district · 13 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 Sarlls v. United States · Kettering v. City of Jacksonville · Briffitt v. State · State v. Carmody · Allred 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of course, the name by which it was called cannot affect its kind or quality. It is the stuff of which it is made, and not its name, that gives it place among the prohibited liquors named in the Constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. State““The ordinary acceptation of the term ‘malt liquor’ imports a fermented liquor, made chiefly of malt; . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hemrich
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.