Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2006
2 district · 22 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 Gaither v. Cate · Polansky v. State · Hunter v. State · Wolf v. State · People v. One Pinball Machine Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““include[d] any ‘device(s) * * * at which money * * * shall be bet or wagered.’ Construing the statutes liberally, we see no reason to confíne the application of the statute to those devices that depend upon chance, as distinguished from skill. In its broader aspects, ‘playing any game for money is gaming.’ Ankers v. Bartlett, 1 K.B. 147 [1936].’ ” Brown v. State, supra, 210 Md. at 307 , 123 A.2d at 327 . (asterisks in original, emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It may be inferred, despite the paucity of evidence as to how the machine worked, that the inducement to play was, in part at least, the chance of gain. The insertion of the money and the operation of the device by the player in the hope of winning a monetary reward in varying amounts, in our view of the Maryland Statute, constitutes a bet or wager, regardless of the element of skill.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.