Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
59
cited by 59 later decisions
1
states following
October 2019
most recently cited
57 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ohio v. Roberts · Palmer v. Hoffman · Williams v. State · Momon v. State · Teague 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At heart, a criminal prosecution is designed to find the truth of what a defendant did, and, on occasion, of why he did it. It is most unusual that a prosecution will properly concern itself with why an investigating officer did something. If the hearsay rule is to remain a part of our law, then OCGA § 24-3-2 . . . must be contained within its proper limit. Otherwise, the repetition of the rote words “to explain conduct” can become imprimatur for the admission of rumor, gossip, and speculation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ny writing or record . . . made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event... if the trial judge shall find that it was made in the regular course of any business and that it was the regular course of such business to make the memorandum or record at the time of the act, transaction, occurrence, or event or within a reasonable time thereafter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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