People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably United States v. Miller (1939), United States of America v. Timothy Joe Emerson (2001)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 People v. . Persce · Nunn v. State · Andrews v. State · State v. Duke · City of Salina v. Blaksley
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Some weapons are adapted and recognized ... as proper for private defense of person and property. Others are the peculiar tools of the criminal. The police power of the State to preserve public safety and peace and to regulate the bearing of arms cannot fairly be restricted to the mere establishment of conditions under which all sorts of weapons may be privately possessed, but it may take account of the character and ordinary use of weapons and interdict those whose customary employment by individuals is to violate the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a partial inventory of the arsenal of the 'public enemy,' the 'gangster' "; it didn't include "weapons usually relied upon by good citizens for defense or pleasure”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Cox“weapons usually relied upon by good citizens for defense or pleasure”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Cox
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.