33 Ala. App. 97 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1981 · most notably 35 Ala. App. 71 - Head v. State (1950), Odom v. State (1950)
28 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 Roan v. State · Wilson v. State · Blue v. State · Johnson v. Williams · Daniels v. State
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The basis of the logical admissibility of this type of evidence is that it gives rise to a justification of more prompt and decisive action on the part of the accused when his assailant is known to be of bloodthirsty, violent or turbulent character.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. State
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.