Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Chambers v. Mississippi (1973), Henry v. State of Mississippi (1965)
104 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 Lisenba v. People of State of California · Brown v. State of Mississippi · Tucker v. State · Floyd v. State · Fisher 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constitutional rights in serious criminal cases rise above mere rules of procedure.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“This place of business you run is a bootlegging establishment, isn't it?”
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.