45 Ala. App. 391 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably 361 So. 2d 1106 - Chavers v. State (1978), 49 Ala. App. 233 - Thigpen v. State (1972)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 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 Bumper v. North Carolina · Wynehamer v. . the People · Stokes v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Seals v. State · Aaron 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You are instructed that the charges of murder in the second degree and manslaughter in the first degree are also embraced in this indictment. “Murder in the second degree is the willful, unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought but without deliberation or premeditation. “Manslaughter in the first degree is the unlawful, voluntary killing of another human being without malice. In manslaughter in the first degree there must be either a positive intention to kill, or an act of violence without just cause or legal excuse from which ordinarily, in the usual course of events, death may ensue. “Before you may convict the defendant of any charge embraced in this indictment, you must be convinced from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt of each and every element of the offense charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trenor v. State“As a practical matter, § 52, supra, admits of so many avenues of questioning that a trial judge seldom, if ever, can be held to reversible error thereunder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All that the Constitution requires of a jury is that it be impartial, duodecimal and unanimous.”
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.