Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2011
11 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 Smith v. State · Glover v. State · McNew v. State · Wooten 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Indiana law ... is distinctly biased against jury instructions which single out eyewitness identification testimony.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hopkins v. State · Miller v. State“[the vagaries of eyewitness testimony are aptly brought before the jury for consideration by general instructions on the proper manner of weigh ing testimony, and by the opportunity for inclusion of that subject within the final summation of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lyons 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.