371 So. 2d 746 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2000
20 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 Hankerson v. North Carolina · Sam Destefano v. Woods, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois. Frank Anthony Carceran · Ballew v. Georgia · Daniel v. Louisiana · Burch v. State of Louisiana
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[t]he trial judge has great discretion in determining the depth and length of the inquiry. This discretion will not be disturbed absent a showing of abuse."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the rule of Burch, supra , should not be applied retroactively to juries empaneled prior to the date of the Burch decision.”
2 later decisions 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.