Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Oken v. State (1992), Wilson v. State (1990)
28 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 United States v. Equitable Life Assurance Society · Tucker v. State · State v. Devers and Webster · Garrison v. State · Bird 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““unloosing, removing or displacing any covering or fastening of the premises. It may consist of lifting a latch, drawing a bolt, raising an unfastened window, turning a key or knob, pushing open a door kept closed merely by its own weight.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. State““[T]he term ‘breaking’ may be satisfied where ... the breaking occurred ‘constructively,’ through an entry gained by artifice, ‘by fraud, [by] conspiracy (with those within) or [by] threats.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reed 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.