Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2007
10 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 Yarbrough v. State · Jones v. State · Nelms v. State · McNair 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court instructs the jury for the defendant that if there is in your minds on the whole testimony in this case a reasonable probability of the defendant's innocence, then there is a reasonable doubt of his guilt, and the jury should vote to acquit him.”
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.