State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
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
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.
“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 passagee.g. State v. Norris“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 passagee.g. Bell v. Evatt
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.