Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2012
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 Denham v. Commonwealth · Combs v. Commonwealth · Tuttle v. Commonwealth · Pruitt v. Commonwealth · Smith v. Commonwealth
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The last point raised is that the search of the automobile was illegal. Although, as heretofore indicated, Brown was driving the car at the time, he was not its owner. Kenneth Locke had borrowed the car for the trip and, as he was in charge of it, he appears to have been the only person, if any, who could have complained of an illegal search; and the record does not reveal that Locke objected to the search of the automobile. “This Court has held in a long line of cases that an automobile guest, and such was Brown, is not in a position to object to the search of such a vehicle without a warrant. See Smith v. Commonwealth, Ky., 375 S.W.2d 242 ; Combs v. Commonwealth, Ky., 341 S.W.2d 774 ; Pruitt v. Commonwealth, Ky., 286 S.W.2d 551 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lane v. Commonwealth“proper instructions, where one is indicted as a third offender involving similar misdemeanors, and there is evidence supporting the accusation, should permit the jury to return possible verdicts of guilty or not guilty of the primary crime charged; or guilty or not guilty of the second or third offense violations; or of any combination of the three.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The function of the bill of particulars in a criminal case is to provide information fairly necessary to enable the accused to understand and prepare his defense against the charges without prejudicial surprise upon trial. It is complementary to the shorter form of indictment.””
1 later decision 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.