Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Wagner v. State (1985), Johnson v. State (1985)
102 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 Maldonado v. State · Drollinger v. State · Strickland v. State · Bradberry v. State · Gregory 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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Furthermore, it is well established that happenings near in time and place which complete the story of the crime are admissible under the theory of res gestae. Maldonado v. State, (1976) 265 Ind. 492 , 355 N.E.2d 843 ; Tapp v. State, (1980) Ind.App., 406 N.E.2d 296 . The victim’s testimony here supported her account that she was in fear for her life and was trying to gain defendant’s trust so that he would release her. There was no error in the admission of this testimony.” Supra at 337.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Criminal Rule 4(B)(1) provides in part: "If any defendant held in jail on an indictment or an affidavit shall move for an early trial, he shall be discharged if not brought to trial within seventy (70) calendar days from the date of such motion, except where a continuance within said period is had on his motion, or the delay is otherwise caused by his act, or where there was not sufficient time to try him during such seventy (70) calendar days because of the congestion of the court calendar."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phelps v. State“Grounds for objection must be specific, and any grounds not raised in the trial court are not available on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burton 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.