Brewer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Hitch v. State (1972), Barnes v. State (1975)
59 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 Strauder v. West Virginia · Hernandez v. Texas · Norris v. State of Alabama · Smith v. Texas · Whitus v. State of Georgia Whitus
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cannot say that because a rule of law is not worded in a particular way, it is per se erroneous.” 253 Ind. at 162 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hitch 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.