Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . [A]fter being impaneled, and at each adjournment, they must be admonished by the court that it is their duty not to converse among themselves, nor suffer others to converse with them, on any subject connected with the trial, or to form or express any opinion thereon, until the cause is finally submitted to them.” IC 1971, 35-1-37-2 (Burns Code Ed.)”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stubbs v. State · Dombkowski v. State

2. ““Nowhere does appellant point out that he did not have a fair and impartial trial because of the failure on behalf of the court to instruct the jury according to the terms of the statute. Therefore, even if this failure should be considered as error, it was not prejudicial since there was legal and competent evidence in the record from which the jury could have arrived at its verdict, and it is not made to appear that the technical error complained of may have in any way prejudiced the rights of appellant. This court will disregard technical errors or defects which did not prejudice the substantial rights of a defendant.” (Emphasis added.) (Ibid. at 608-09 of 245 Ind., at 283 of 201 N.E.2d.)”

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