State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 district · 152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably State v. Buggs (1976), State v. Schoonover (2006)
2 district · 152 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 Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · People v. Chessman · United States v. Union Pacific Railroad · 3 Cal. 2d 279 - People v. Tanner · State v. Neff
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... Statements of counsel, however, are not evidence any more than are the opening statements of counsel in the presentation of a case before a jury or to the court. The foundation, which the law contemplates, is a foundation in evidence. It is proof that is required. Proof that due diligence has been exercised and that the testimony of the witness is not available...." (p. 394.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . When all of the offenses are of the same general character, require the same mode of trial, the same kind of evidence and occur in the same jurisdiction the defendant may be tried upon several counts of one information or if separate informations have been filed they may be consolidated for trial at one and the same trial, (citing cases.)” (pp. 256, 257.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jones · State v. Adams“[A]ny touching of a victim against her will, with physical force, in an intentional, hostile and aggravated manner, or the projecting of such force against the victim by the kidnaper is 'bodily harm' within the meaning of the statute providing the death penalty if the person kidnaped suffered bodily harm.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Taylor · State v. Sanders
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.