Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably State v. Salamon (2008), Hoke v. Commonwealth (1989)
2 federal appellate · 73 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Ashe v. Swenson · Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one accused of abduction by detention and another crime involving restraint of the victim, both growing out of a continuing course of conduct, is subject upon conviction to separate penalties for separate offenses only when the detention committed in the act of abduction is separate and apart from, and not merely incidental to, the restraint employed in the commission of the other crime.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is now well recognized that this clause affords an accused three distinct constitutional guarantees. “It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction. And it protects against multiple punishments for the same offense.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the present case, Stell’s wrists and ankles were bound securely with ligatures, her mouth was gagged tightly, and she was detained for a lengthy period. Applying the Brown rule to these facts, we conclude that Stell’s detention was greater than ‘the kind of restraint that is inherent in the act of rape,’ or in the commission of robbery. Thus, we hold that the evidence supports the jury’s finding that Hoke killed Stell in the commission of abduction.”
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.