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← 321 S.C. 184 - State v. Brown

State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2000
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Merriman · State v. Osborne · State v. Osborne · State v. Amburgey · State v. Sales

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[u]nder the law of self-defense, one who is attacked on his own premises is immune from the duty to retreat,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “a lawful guest has a duty to retreat when attacked by the owner”
    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.