Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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

1. “At trial, an F.B.I. agent testified as an expert witness that a hair specimen found on the clothing of the victim “exhibited the same microscopic characteristics” as head hairs removed from the defendant. The defendant contends that this testimony should have been excluded as “speculative or conjectural” because the witness was unable to state specifically that the hair found on the victim’s clothing was that of defendant. The hair-identification testimony was properly admitted. The weight to be given such evidence is for the trier of fact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thompson v. State