State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Andrus (1967), 410 So. 2d 1019 - State v. Willie (1982)
71 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Pace v. State of Alabama · State v. Honeycutt · Bines v. State · State v. Morgan
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the trial of every criminal case the State, to warrant a legal conviction of an accused, must prove the corpus delicti , or the fact that a crime has been committed. Without such proof no conviction will be permitted to stand.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“... [A]n accused party cannot be legally convicted on his own uncorroborated confession without proof that a crime has been committed by someone; in other words, without proof of the corpus delicti.”
2 later decisions 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.