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Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
2
states following
October 2024
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Humphreys v. State (2010), Brown v. State (2012)

34 state decisions

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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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Batson v. Kentucky · Smith v. Francis

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““A ‘warrantless arrest’ is constitutionally valid if . . . the arresting officer has probable cause to believe the accused has committed or is committing an offense____(Cit.)” Brown v. State, 262 Ga. 728, 729 (2) (a) ( 425 SE2d 856 ) (1993). Probable cause exists if the arresting officer has reasonably trustworthy information that would allow a reasonable person to believe the accused committed a crime. Id.”
    2 later decisions 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.