State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 223 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Simmons v. South Carolina (1994), State v. Bullard (1984)
6 federal appellate · 223 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Chapman v. State of California · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Gregg v. Georgia · Harrington v. California · Weatherford v. Bursey
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 244 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure to conduct a formal arraignment itself is not reversible error. State v. Smith, 300 N.C. 71 , 265 S.E. 2d 164 (1980). The purpose of an arraignment is to allow a defendant to enter a plea and have the charges read or summarized to him and the failure to do so is not prejudicial error unless defendant objects and states that he is not properly informed of the charges. State v. Small, 301 N.C. 407 , 272 S.E. 2d 128 (1980).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A definition of mitigating circumstance approved by this Court is a fact or group of facts which do not constitute any justification or excuse for killing or reduce it to a lesser degree of the crime of first-degree murder, which may be considered as extenuating, or reducing the moral culpability of killing or making it less deserving of the extreme punishment than other first-degree murders."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moose · State v. Boyd“'The question whether a consent to a search was in fact "voluntary”
3 later decisions 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.