Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1993
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Coggins v. Ely · Parrish v. Commonwealth · Ellis v. State · Clark v. Boyce · Skarda 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not a violation of any canon of construction to substitute one word for another, or to supply or disregard a word in order to give effect to the obvious intention of the Legislature, where it is apparent that the wrong word has been used or the right one omitted. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Abbey
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.