Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Commonwealth v. Griffin (1994), Commonwealth v. Futch (1976)
34 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 Lisenba v. People of State of California · Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Ham v. South Carolina · Aldridge 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Since one of the purposes of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is to insure these ‘essential demands of fairness,’ e. g., Lisenba v. California, 314 U.S. 219, 236 , 62 S.Ct. 280, 289 , 86 L.Ed. 166 (1941), and since a principal purpose of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment was to prohibit the States from invidiously discriminating on the basis of race, Slaughter-House Cases [ 83 U.S. 36 ], 16 Wall. 36, 81 , 21 L.Ed. 394 (1873), we think that the Fourteenth Amendment required the judge in this case to interrogate the jurors upon the subject of racial prejudice. . . .” 409 U.S. at 526-27 , 93 S.Ct. at 850 , 35 L.Ed.2d at 50 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.