State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Shapiro (1983), State v. Smith (1983)
68 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Payton v. New York · Doyle v. Ohio · Gerstein v. Pugh · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [The Court] may vacate a sentence and remand for re-sentencing, when the reasons for an apparently severe sentence in relation to the particular offender and the actual offense committed do not appear in the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson · State v. Johnson“Res gestae are events speaking for themselves under the immediate pressure of the occurrence, through the instructive, impulsive and spontaneous words and acts of the participants, and not the words of the participants when narrating the events. What forms any part of the res gestae is always admissible in evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson · State v. Nance“The Supreme Court case of State v. Brown, 395 So.2d 1301 (La.1981) involved a shooting. The witness at trial was the emergency room nurse who treated the victim. She testified that the victim told her that the defendant had shot her. The Court noted that this testimony was clearly hearsay but was an exception to the rule. One such exception is the res gestae doctrine.... This doctrine includes not only spontaneous utterances and declarations made before and after commission of a crime but also includes testimony of witnesses pertaining to what they heard or observed before, during or after the commission of the crime if the continuous chain of events is evident under the circumstances.... The statement made by the victim to Ms. Taylor in the emergency room was part of a continuous chain of events that began when the victim was first battered. Though some three to four hours had elapsed since the shots were fired, the victim had been brought to the hospital by one of her assailants, Randy Brown, had been unconscious since the shots were fired, and was under the immediate pressure of the occurrence. The statement is thus admissible as part of the res gestae.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.