State v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Smith v. State (1977), Graber v. City of Ankeny (2000)
4 federal appellate · 37 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Taylor v. Louisiana · Ballard v. United States · Carter v. Jury Commission of Greene County · Pink Franklin v. State of South Carolina
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““is a technique, used as a matter of convenience and practical necessity to establish a record of matters peculiarly within the knowledge of an attorney. In offering a professional statement an attorney pledges the honor of his profession and his personal integrity. It has the effect of an affidavit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so palpably and grossly violative of fact and law that it evidences not the exercise of will but perversity of will, not the exercise of judgment, but defiance thereof, not the exercise of reason but rather of passion or bias.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lewis“You know, I don’t like Mr. Pennock, I don’t like anything about it, but at least he testified as to what the facts and circumstances were. He testified and you had an opportunity to hear him testify-”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewer 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.