Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Bright v. State (1995), Williams v. State (1997)
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Ake v. Oklahoma · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · Washington Post Co. v. Rebozo · Arizona v. Hicks
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fair opportunity to present his defense,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Putnal v. State · State v. Phipps“The matter will be heard ex parte. The state may submit a brief, which will be considered at the time of the ex parte hearing. The ex parte proceeding shall be reported and transcribed as part of the record but shall be sealed in the same manner as are those items examined in camera. The court in its discretion may reserve issues to be heard at a separate hearing at which the state will be present. The state may always be represented when the defendant is examined as to his indigency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Phipps“affirm[ed] the trial court's order that an application for funds be presented to the court in chambers,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Putnal 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.