Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Hunter v. State (1995), 255 So. 2d 513 - Fowler v. State (1971)
50 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Jones v. United States · Alderman v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“merely advisory to the [trial court], which itself retains the responsibility of the decision.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`The trial judge did appropriately instruct the jury as to all degrees of murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, and excusable homicide, all having to do with the death of the victim. * * * * * * "`What we have here was either unlawful homicide or lawful homicide. The death of a human being at the hands of defendant Sadler was concededly involved. If defendant's contention as to "lesser included offenses" is sound, then the trial Judge would have been required, upon request, to run down the gamut of the criminal lexicon to minor petty offenses such as disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace. This was a death case, not an assault case. We hold there is no merit to this point.'" (emphasis in the original) 245 So.2d at 75 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simone · Martin v. State“if at any time while criminal proceedings are pending against a person accused of crime, whether before or during or after the trial, the trial court ... has facts brought to its attention which raise a doubt of the sanity of the Defendant, the question should be settled before further steps are taken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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