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← 287 N.C. 392 - State v. Brooks

State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
April 1994
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Brandenburg v. Ohio

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

  1. “(1) Public disturbance; (2) Assemblage; (3) Three or more persons; (4) Disorderly and violent conduct, or the imminent threat of such conduct; and (5) Results in injury or damages to persons or property or creates a clear and present danger of injury or damage to persons or property.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he trial de novo is not really an appeal on the record. It is a new trial as a matter of absolute right from the beginning to the end. It totally disregards the plea, trial, verdict, and judgment of the District Court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “to learn about the prosecution's case and ... not reveal his own.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.