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← 278 Ga. 544 - Brown v. State

Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
September 2012
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Hines v. State · Butler v. State · Thomas v. State · Harris 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “When prejudicial matter is improperly presented to the jury, a mistrial is appropriate if it is essential to preserve the defendant’s right to a fair trial. [Cit.] It is for the trial court to determine whether the granting of a mistrial is the only corrective measure or whether any prejudice can be corrected by withdrawing the testimony from the jury’s consideration under proper instruction from the court. [Cit.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “and absent an abuse of that discretion, the [juvenile] court's action will stand.”
    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.