Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2019
21 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 Zurcher v. Stanford Daily · Bowden v. Georgia · Stephens v. Hopper · Robinson v. State · Bowden 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To qualify as an expert ... generally all that is required is that a person must have been educated in a particular skill or profession; his special knowledge may be derived from experience as well as study. Formal Education in the subject at hand is not a prerequisite for expert status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patel 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.