Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State (1975), Davis v. State (1993)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 94 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 Aldridge v. United States · Chisley v. State · Bryant v. State · Casey v. Roman Catholic Archbishop · State v. Higgs
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If there is any likelihood that some prejudices in the jurors' mind which will even subconsciously affect his decision of the case, the party who may be adversely affected should be permitted questions designed to uncover that prejudice. This is particularly true with reference to the defendant in a criminal case. Otherwise, the right of trial by an impartial jury guaranteed to him ... might well be impaired...."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dingle v. State · Davis v. State““We cannot be blind to the fact that there may still be some who are biased against the Negro race and would be more easily convinced of a Negro’s guilt ... than they would of a white man’s guilt. ... “So long as race prejudice exists, even in a relatively few persons, there is a substantial chance that one of those few will appear in court as a venireman. Consequently, the fact that most people in the state are not prejudiced against Negroes is not of controlling importance.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"All the jurors had already said that they had not formed or expressed any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, and the fact that a prospective juror has read or heard accounts concerning the accused or the crime does not of itself disqualify him or raise any presumption of prejudice. Bryant v. State, 207 Md. 565, 577-579 ; Piracci v. State, 207 Md. 499, 511-512 ; Grammer v. State, 203 Md. 200, 209 .” 220 Md. at 34 .”
2 later decisions 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.