Brothers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990), Nichols v. State (1964)
81 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 Anderson v. State · Parsons v. State · Parrish v. State · Spicer v. State · Howard 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It cannot be said such remarks would be out of bounds in any and every connection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]ounsel may draw any inference which the facts tend to support.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It has become a maxim of the law that in cases where insanity is relied upon as a defense, `Every act of the party's life is relevant to the issue.'”
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.