Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Strickland v. State (1987), Washington v. State (1982)
35 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 Henderson v. State · Burger v. State · Raines v. State · Aguilar v. State · Campbell 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with a graphic description of her sexual activities with other men,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware v. State“adulterous conduct rather than the words describing this conduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware v. State“serious provocation sufficient to excite”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware 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.