Brand v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 1980
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cobb v. Malone · Kemp 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Legal malice’ as an ingredient of murder is an intent to take human life without legal excuse, justification or mitigation, and it may be presumed from the use of a deadly weapon, unless the evidence which proves the killing rebuts the presumption.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Parks v. State · Brown v. State
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.