376 So. 2d 382 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 420 So. 2d 639 - Finney v. State (1982), Login v. State (1981)
151 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 Fuentes v. Shevin · 245 So. 2d 225 - State v. Ashby · United States v. Sepe · United States v. Cox · Turner v. United States
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a matter of law a confession may not be considered dispositive of the case.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“it expedites resolution of the controversy and narrows the issues to be resolved.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vaughn v. State · Jones v. State“an Ashby nolo plea is permissible only when the legal issue to be determined on appeal is dispositive of the case.”
4 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.