Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Cross v. State (1978), State v. Wilson (1977)
34 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 Harris v. United States · Marron v. United States · United States v. Lefkowitz · Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States · Alcorta v. Texas
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * where the officers had reasonable cause to infer that the packaged hogmeat labeled ‘Curtin’ found on the premises of a suspected thief named ‘Brooks’ was stolen property, we think the officers were justified in believing that it was the fruit of a crime and in seizing it as such. The mere fact that the packages of hogmeat were not listed as stolen property in the affidavit supporting the search warrant would not render inadmissible the testimony concerning the recovery thereof on the ground that the hogmeat was a product of an illegal search and seizure.” (emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision 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.