Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably 164 Ind. App. 169 - Indiana High School Athletic Ass'n v. Raike Ex Rel. Minneman (1975), Bond v. State (1980)
53 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Shapiro v. Thompson · Ex parte Lange · Tate v. Short
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. .. responds to potential equal protection problems which would arise if pre-sentence confinement were the result of the inability of a criminal defendant to post bail and thereby secure his release pending trial, resulting in different periods of total confinement being served by two prisoners who had been convicted of the same offense, solely because one had the money to post bail and the other did not. Law and procedures which discriminate against indigent defendants are inconsistent with the promise of equal treatment under law. * * * * * * ... The law confines the use of pre-trial detention to only one end: namely, that the criminal defendant be present for trial. This limitation is implicit in the concept of bail. Art. 1, § 17, Indiana Constitution.” (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dewees v. State“Credit for time served before sentencing. — When sentencing any person convicted of a crime the sentencing court shall order that the sentenced person to be given credit toward service of his sentence for any days spent in confinement as a result of the criminal charge for which sentence is imposed or as a result of the conduct on which such charge is based. The court shall specify in its order of commitment the number of days credit to which the person sentenced is entitled pursuant to this section, (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State““It is also highly probable that the General Assembly considered the matter from the standpoint of those who have been convicted and have commenced service of their sentences in prison. In the absence of credit being given for pre-sentence confinement, irrational differences in total time confined would exist between inmates serving identical sentences for identical offenses....” Id. at 711-12 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Capes 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.