Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2003 · most notably Jackson v. Denno (1964), Taylor v. State (1996)
32 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 Pitts v. State · Ellis v. State · Heard v. State · Perkins v. State · Williams 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The admissibility of a confession is for the determination of the trial judge; and, when admitted, the jury may consider it in the light of the evidence by which it was obtained and give it such weight and credibility as they think it is entitled. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that a real, and not an imaginary, crime has been confessed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.