State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Fair (2001), State v. Cummings (2000)
66 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 Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · Mills v. Maryland · McKoy v. North Carolina · State v. Johnson
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nly an extreme impropriety on the part of the prosecutor will compel this Court to hold that the trial judge abused his discretion in not recognizing and correcting ex mero motu an argument that defense counsel apparently did not believe was prejudicial when originally spoken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Battle · State v. Ogles“alibi witnesses had motives to lie to protect him”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Battle · State v. Ogles“communications are not privileged when made in the presence of a third person not acting as an agent of either party,”
1 later decision 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.