Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1997
6 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 Church v. State · 156 So. 2d 677 - Sharon v. State · Holliday v. State · 170 So. 2d 319 - Miller v. State · Harvey v. Drake
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * thus the bare circumstance of being found in possession of paraphernalia commonly used in promoting or conducting a lottery, though admissible in evidence for whatever value it may have in support of the inference that the party found in possession was, within the statutory period embraced by the information or indictment, interested in a live lottery, that circumstance standing alone is inadequate to support conviction of the felony. “We do not mean to infer or hold that the circumstances surrounding the possession of lottery paraphernalia may not, when coupled with such possession, be sufficient to warrant the conclusion that it was used by the accused in connection with a live lottery, that being a matter for the jury in each case. It is a lack of competent evidence to support conviction of the felony that compelled our reversal in this case.””
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.