State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Brewer v. Porch (1969), Kimmelman v. Henkels & McCoy, Inc. (1987)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 136 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 State v. Bunk
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sense of a law is to be gathered from its object and the nature of the subject matter, the contextual setting, and the statutes in pari materia. [State v. Brown, 22 N.J. 405, 415 (1956); emphasis supplied].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“are to be strictly read to avoid penalties by construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing”
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.