Brayton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 1989
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Ross · Michigan v. Thomas · Frank v. State · 393 So. 2d 540 - Tascano v. State · 391 So. 2d 192 - Gluesenkamp 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he uncontradicted evidence before the jury was that the truck was loaded out of [defendants'] presence, that they did not have a key to the locked cargo area, and that they did not know of the contents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
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.