Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably State v. Bruce (1966), Wright v. State (1977)
27 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 Mack v. State · Caudill v. State · Anderson v. State · Wheatley v. United States · Walker 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever kidnaps, or forcibly or fraudulently carries off or decoys from any place within this state, or arrests or imprisons any person, with the intention of having such person carried away from any place within this state, unless it be in pursuance of the laws of this state or of the United States, is guilty of kidnapping, and, on conviction, shall be imprisoned in the state prison during life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. State“Indiana has followed the rule that if the part of the confession bearing upon the issue can be separated from the part relating to other separate offenses, that part material to the issues, and that part only, may be admitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Warner v. State
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.