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← 239 P3D 764 - Brown v. People

Brown v. People’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
February 2021
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Mathews v. United States · Stevenson v. United States · Spuehler v. State · The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado v. Michael MILLER · People v. Rivera

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is not automatically barred from seeking jury instructions on a lesser included offense or on a related, voluntary intoxication defense. Rather, these jury instructions remain available provided that there is a rational basis for them in the evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “A trial court's failure to provide a jury instruction after a defendant requests such instruction will be reviewed under the harmless error standard.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[T]he greater offense must establish every essential element of the lesser included offense.”
    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.