Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “testify before the grand jury. He gave the grand jurors background information during the witness' testimony and put pressure on witnesses to speak out. The Court of Appeals properly found that the indictments in Brown should have been dismissed because the procedure followed violated the minimal protection afforded by statute that an indictment will follow only”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Averhart v. State

2. “from impartial consideration in a neutral and detached atmosphere in the grand jury room.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Averhart v. State