Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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

1. “G. There are facilities or programs available to the Judge of the Juvenile Division of the Circuit Court to rehabilitate juveniles, but they are unlikely to rehabilitate the Defendant before the expiration of his twenty-first birthday. In November of 2014, he had contact with the juvenile office concerning unwanted text messages to a female. A diversion was used which involved contact with the juvenile office and counseling. He did fine until February of 2015 when his father reported he had stolen $200.00 from his mother and was bullying his mother. The juvenile office worked with him with more restrictions. Later it was reported he was skipping school and a Family in Need of Services case was opened. He appeared before the Juvenile Court Judge on May 1, 2015 and was ordered to comply with court rules including counseling and school attendance. He attended counseling until sometime in December of 2015. He reported to his parents he was attending school and his counseling, but was not. In March of 2016, the parents reported he had stolen credit cards and a truck. He was scheduled for adjudication on May 20, 2016; the homicide occurred April 14, 2016.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Despain v. State