Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
October 2023
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Vega v. State · State v. Jackson · Woodard v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the injury itself constituted the sole proximate cause of the death; or ... (2) the injury directly and materially contributed to the happening of a subsequent accruing immediate cause of the death; or ... (3) the injury materially accelerated the death, although proximately occasioned by a pre-existing cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State
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.