State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably State v. Ballenger (1996), State v. Adams (1987)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · United States v. Bethea · State v. Ellis · State v. Tabory · State v. Matarazzo
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sum total of the State’s evidence against Brown is that he was a passenger in a car on a deserted rural road about 1:00 A.M., that [the driver] had an undetermined sum of cash in a large roll, that Brown was nervous and had no identification, that there was a smell of marijuana in the car, and that there was a large opaque bag containing eight pounds of marijuana on the rear floorboard. [The driver] knew Brown’s name as Chuck Brown and Brown told [the driver] to be quiet when [the driver] started to admit the crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[tjhere was no evidence adduced ... as to ownership of the car or any special relation appellant had with Wolfe or the owner from which Brown’s control of the car or its contents might be inferred. The bag containing the marijuana was opaque and so situated that a front seat passenger might never have seen the bag, much less its contents. There was no evidence that Brown was a seller or user of drugs, or that he even recognized the odor of marijuana; or that he was a close friend of the driver; or that he spent a substantial part of the night with him. Although Rogers testified he smelled the odor of burned marijuana he found no residue of such in or about the car of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pradubsri
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.