Brown v. State of Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
297 U.S. 278 · 1936
Citation profile
497 federal appellate · 91 district · 644 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,826 later decisions (204 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)
497 federal appellate · 91 district · 644 state decisions — followed in 49 states
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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Mooney v. Holohan · Hurtado v. People of the State of California
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chambers v. Florida · Ashcraft v. State of Tennessee · Spano v. People of the State of New York · Blackburn v. Alabama
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 1,826 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would be difficult to conceive of methods more revolting to the sense of justice than those taken to procure the confessions of (Schmidt), and the use of the confessions thus obtained as the basis for conviction and sentence was a clear denial of due process.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Coercing the supposed state's criminals into confessions and using such confessions so coerced from them against them in trials has been the curse of all countries. It was the chief inequity, the crowning infamy of the Star Chamber, and the Inquisition, and other similar institutions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rack and torture chamber may not be substituted for the witness stand.”
6 later decisions 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.