499 So. 2d 787 - Ex Parte Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2016
13 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 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · 391 So. 2d 133 - Dolvin v. State · Ex parte Acree · 331 So. 2d 766 - Randolph 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the circumstances can be reconciled with the theory that someone else may have done the act, then the conviction is due to be reversed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n particular, such [a] statement cannot be the basis of a finding of fact necessary to the establishment of civil or criminal liability or a defense to either.”
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.