State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2018
15 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 State v. McFarlane · Gentry v. Watkins-Carolina Trucking Co.
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.
“[a] doctor's testimony as to history should include only those facts related to him by the victim upon which he relied in reaching his medical conclusions. The doctor's testimony should never be used as a tool to prove facts properly proved by other witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Simmons“The perpetrator's identity would rarely, if ever, be a factor upon which the doctor relied in diagnosing or treating the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Simmons
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.