32 Ala. App. 500 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1963
8 state decisions
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 Matter of Lyons v. Goldstein · Matter of Morhous v. N.Y. Supreme Court · Johnson v. Williams · Lamb v. State of Florida · Bolden v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the allegations of the petition are not true, they may be traversed in due course in the court below, and thereupon the issue as to the truth of such allegations may be judicially determined in form and manner as provided by law. Smith v. State, 245 Ala. 161 , 16 So.2d 315 ; Johnson v. Williams, Warden, 244 Ala. 391 , 13 So.2d 683 ; Skipper v. Schumacher, 124 Fla. 384 , 169 So. 58 ; Chambers v. State, 117 Fla. 642 , 158 So. 153 ; Lamb v. State, 91 Fla. 396 , 107 So. 535 , 536 ; Chambers et al v. State, 113 Fla. 786 , 152 So. 437 .”
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.