State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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.

1. ““The practical difficulty with appellant’s position is that the prosecuting attorney did not wait until final argument to mention punishment, but did make reference to the matter of punishment in his opening argument. By such reference, he gave notice of his intention to argue further on the matter of punishment in closing argument. That the State’s opening argument was such notice is shown by the defense argument in which counsel, himself, recited the range of punishment to show the severe effect on his client of a conviction, following the main thrust of his argument which was aimed at acquittal. See State v. Hale, Mo., 371 S.W.2d 249, 255-256 [12-16]. “Viewed in this context, the argument did not constitute reversible error and is distinguished, by contrast, from the arguments found unfair and reversibly erroneous in appellant’s citations”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cooper v. State · State v. Keely