Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1992
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · State v. Brown · State v. Davison · State v. Smith · State v. Bradford
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[t]he record shows that all Negroes on the jury panel were stricken by the state by use of its peremptory challenges, but it does not show that they were stricken because they were Negroes or that this was part of a consistent, systematic practice of the state. " Brown v. State, 470 S.W.2d 543, 544 (Mo.1971) (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Baldwin“"[t]he record of the trial of the assault case supports the court's findings that appointed counsel performed his duties capably and diligently and that defendant had a fair trial." Brown v. State, 470 S.W.2d 543, 544 (Mo.1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Baldwin“systematic, arbitrary and discriminatory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Baldwin
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.