Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2002
16 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 Smith v. State · 19 Ala. App. 322 - Frazier v. State · Sullivan 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It shall be unlawful for any person who is intoxicated by or under the influence of liquors or narcotic drugs to appear or travel upon or be along the public roads and highways of the state. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, provided this section shall not apply to persons traveling along a public highway as passengers in any public or private conveyance." [emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“along the public roads and highways of this state,”
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.