State v. Brandon’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Brooke (2007), 64 Ohio St. 3d 476 - State v. Brown (1992)
126 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Scott v. Illinois · Baldasar v. Illinois · State v. Adams
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where questions arise concerning a prior conviction, a reviewing court must presume all underlying proceedings were conducted in accordance with the rules of law and a defendant must introduce evidence to the contrary in order to establish a prima-facie showing of constitutional infirmity.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a defendant raises a constitutional question concerning a prior conviction, he must lodge an objection as to the use of this conviction and he must present sufficient evidence to establish a prima facie showing of a constitutional infirmity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“essentially held that uncounseled misdemeanor convictions are constitutionally valid if the offender is not actually incarcerated.”
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.