Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Hubbard (1977), Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer (1982)
146 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 Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Boykin
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant is entitled upon request to a limiting instruction charging the jury that it is not permitted to draw the inference from the evidence of other offenses that the defendant by character was predisposed to commit the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]vidence of other offenses may be received if relevant for any purpose other than to show a mere propensity or disposition on the part of defendant to commit the crime.”
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.