Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2000
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Smith v. Commonwealth · Thorpe v. Commonwealth · Ferrell v. Commonwealth · Ringo v. Commonwealth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As will be observed from the quotation hereinbefore of the conversation between the jury and the Trial Court, The Court told the jury the defendant could be paroled under certain circumstances.” Now, the Court goes on to say this: “The matter of parole is beyond the province of the jury to consider. If the jury makes any inquiry of The Court concerning parole The Court should simply and solely respond that the functions of the jury are to determine guilt or innocence under the evidence and the instructions and if a finding of guilt is made to fix the punishment in accordance with the instructions and that the subject of parole is not to be given any consideration by them, in performing their functions.””
2 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.