Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Lane v. Brown (1963), Ballard v. State (1974)
3 federal appellate · 49 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 Watts v. State · Parker v. State · Hawkins v. State · Christen v. State · Rhoades 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In other words, the independent evidence must be of such a character that reasonable inferences may be drawn to support a conclusion that a crime of the nature and character charged has been committed by someone.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whoever purposely and with premeditated malice, or in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate a rape, arson, robbery, or burglary, kills any human being, is guilty of murder in the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“some evidence of probative value aside from the confession”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willoughby 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.