Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Freeman v. State (1975), Moore v. State (1958)
4 federal appellate · 36 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 Dewein v. State · Spurgeon 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be said, also, that in determining whether a confession is voluntary or not the court should look to the whole situation and surrounding of the accused. Hence it is proper to consider his age, the strength or weakness of his intellect, the manner in which he is questioned, the fact he is in jail, and everything connected with his situation. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tucker v. State
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.