Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1946

Citation profile

cited by 59 later decisions

states following

October 2014

most recently cited

57 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Williams v. State (1988), 829 So. 2d 29 - Kolberg v. State (2002)

57 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 Story v. Concord & Montreal Railroad · State v. Scruggs · Brown v. State · Mississippi Central Railroad v. Robinson · Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Morrison

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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[W]hile the person of a witness may be accessible to a party, and his physical presence to testify may be procured by process, that is not the whole question; it is also, whether or not the testimony of the witness is equally available to such party. It is one thing for the person of a witness to be available, and his presence at court obtainable, but it is entirely another thing that what he knows can be equally availed of by the other party.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Bynum v. Swiss American of Mississippi, Inc. · Fox v. State
“"We held in Brown v. State, 200 Miss. 811 , 27 So.2d 838 (1946), that the failure of either party to examine a witness equally accessible to both is not a proper subject for comment before a jury by either of the parties." 183 So.2d at 911 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Bynum v. Swiss American of Mississippi, Inc. · Morgan v. State
“the failure of either party to examine a witness equally accessible to both parties is not a proper subject for comment before a jury”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 969 So. 2d 855 - Brown v. State · 603 So. 2d 857 - Ross 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.