Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably McFee v. State (1987), 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State (1995)
65 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 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 473 So. 2d 952 - Gavin v. State · 461 So. 2d 686 - Jones v. State · State v. Villavicencio · 463 So. 2d 1048 - West 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has a legitimate interest in telling a rational and coherent story of what happened....”
30 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ott v. State · Giles 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.