State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 454 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 464 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Carter (1995), State v. Hill (1996)
2 federal appellate · 454 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 Strickland v. Washington · Edwards v. Arizona · Manson v. Brathwaite · Darden v. Wainwright · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 464 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant is not deprived of effective assistance of counsel when counsel chooses, for strategical reasons, not to pursue every possible trial tactic.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“'The rationale for excluding a tainted pretrial identification is to protect the defendant from misconduct by the state.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““In reviewing a claim that a jury verdict was against the weight of the evidence, or that the evidence was insufficient, a reviewing court’s duty is to review the record to determine whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” State v. Brown (1988), 38 Ohio St.3d 305 , 528 N.E.2d 523 , paragraph four of the syllabus.”
6 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.