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Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
2
states following
November 2021
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 842 So. 2d 330 - State v. Thompson (2003), Clay v. State (2012)

31 state decisions

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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 Horton v. California · Arizona v. Hicks · 193 Ga. App. 2 - State v. Webb · 156 Ga. App. 143 - McDonald v. State · 227 Ga. App. 46 - Holt v. State

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.

  1. “Observation of what reasonably appear to be furtive gestures is a factor which may properly be taken into account in determining whether probable cause exists. Thus, if the police see a person in possession of a highly suspicious object or some object which is not identifiable but which because of other circumstances is reasonably suspected to be contraband, and then observe that person make an apparent attempt to conceal that object from police view, probable cause is then present.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Lewis v. State · 842 So. 2d 330 - State v. Thompson
  2. “construe the evidence most favorably to uphold the ruling of the trial court and in the absence of evidence demanding a finding contrary to the judge's determination, we will not disturb the ruling.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. Price 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.