Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2011
10 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 Allen v. United States · Dorsey v. State · Wilhelm v. State · Washington Homes, Inc. v. Interstate Land Development Co. · Doering 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are consistent in the philosophy prompting them, comparable in the rationale underlying them, and similar in the test set out in them. Both are concerned primarily with error and the prejudice arising therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Spain v. State“and, indeed, that Wilhelm v. State, 272 Md. 404 , 326 A.2d 707 (1974), the leading case addressing the limits of argument by counsel to the jury, and Dorsey”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Spain 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.