State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 state decisions

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

1. “'the right of a person to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will, and to suffer no penalty . . . for such silence'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. George · State v. G.O.

2. “in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Garrett · State v. Adams

3. “'[A] very fine, although very important, distinction between terminating parental rights based specifically upon a refusal to waive protections against self-incrimination and terminating parental rights based upon a parent's failure to comply with an order to obtain meaningful therapy or rehabilitation, perhaps in part because a parent's failure to acknowledge past wrongdoing inhibits meaningful therapy. The latter is constitutionally permissible; the former is not.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 61 Kan. App. 2d 311 - In re E.L.