Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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

1. “"Consistent with the purpose and of the law, the character, ability, responsibility and the broad authority of the office of Public Defender, this court has held: `The Public Defender is not required to represent any prisoner whose assertion that he is unlawfully imprisoned, after due investigation, appears in his sound judgment to have no merit. * * *' "The public defender is not obliged, in cases within the scope of his authority, to make a travesty of his office, by preparing and performing all the formal requisites of an appeal, when such an appeal would be without meritorious grounds which he could in good conscience present to this court for consideration. "* * * "Under the circumstances presented, the public defender was under no duty to request a transcript of the proceedings in error coram nobis and, in the absence of a request from said office, the trial court was under no duty to provide a certified copy of said proceedings at public expense."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 192 So. 2d 346 - Smith v. State · McCrary v. State

2. ““The public defender may order on behalf of any prisoner he represents a transcript of any court proceeding, ... at the expense of the state, . . .” Acts 1945, ch. 38, §5, p. 81 [§13-1405, Burns’ 1956 Repl.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Willoughby v. State

3. “Motion to Appoint Counsel and Furnish Transcript of Record”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 192 So. 2d 346 - Smith v. State