People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Chapman v. State of California · Graham v. Connor · Bell v. Wolfish · City of Canton v. Harris
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whereas an expert may be uniquely qualified by experience to assist the trier of fact, he is not qualified to compete with the judge in the function of instructing the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an invitation to avoid the question of excessive force altogether by conflating it with whether the officers did as they were trained to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Reardon“improperly stepped outside his role as adjunct to the fact finder”
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.