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← 296 S.C. 191 - State v. Brown

State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
November 2005
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Harris v. New York · Oregon v. Hass · United States v. Havens · Bryson v. United States · State v. Brown

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. “This Court has repeatedly held the jury must be charged that evidence of prior convictions is admissible only for impeachment. In a capital case, failure to give this charge is error even absent a request.”
    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.