378 So. 2d 916 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably State v. Trudell (1988), Commonwealth v. Cass (1984)
27 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 Roe v. Wade · State v. Fontenot · 313 So. 2d 799 - State v. Gyles · 370 So. 2d 525 - State v. Brown · State v. Bosworth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The articles of this Code cannot be extended by analogy so as to create crimes not provided for herein; however, in order to promote justice and to effect the objects of the law, all of its provisions shall be given a genuine construction, according to the fair import of their words, taken in their usual sense, in connection with the context, and with reference to the purpose of the provision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Person" includes a human being from the moment of fertilization and implantation....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“fertilized implanted fetus in the womb” of its mother does not charge a crime. Homicide (all grades) is the killing of a”
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.