Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. D'Amato (1987), Commonwealth v. Barren (1983)
30 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Berger v. United States · Swain v. State of Alabama · Strauder v. West Virginia · Earley v. DiCenso
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.
“The presumption [that the prosecutor is using the State’s challenge to obtain a fair and impartial jury] is overcome when the prosecutor in a county, in case after case, whatever the circumstances, whatever the crime and whoever the defendant or the victim may be, is responsible for the removal of [blacks] who have been selected as qualified jurors by the jury commissioners and who have survived challenges for cause, with the result that no [blacks] ever serve on petit juries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must be read in their full context, including the defense closing. We may thus determine if the comments were made in fair response to defense argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.