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← 271 S.C. 355 - State v. Brooks

State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
December 1999
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1999

3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

100197819801990decided

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 State v. Atkinson · State v. Valenti · State v. Pulley · State v. McGee · State v. Bradley

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We are of the view appellant was entitled to have his guilt or innocence determined without regard to his eligibility for parole. A jury should be neither invited nor permitted to speculate upon the possible effects of parole upon a conviction. [Emphasis supplied.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “information as to penalty is of no aid to the jury in determining whether the defendant committed the crime charged.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.