Texas v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1,249 federal appellate · 276 district · 2,673 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,272 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Hudson v. Palmer (1984), Michigan v. Long (1983)
1,249 federal appellate · 276 district · 2,673 state decisions — followed in 49 states
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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California
Cited together with Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Horton v. California · Carroll v. United States
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 5,272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief”
187 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“probable cause to associate the property with criminal activity.”
83 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]here is no legitimate expectation of privacy shielding that portion of the interior of an automobile which may be viewed from outside the vehicle by either inquisitive passersby or diligent police officers.”
62 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.