State v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Ross (1994), State v. Taylor (1996)
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Graves v. United States · State v. Caron · State v. Jefferson · Christensen 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n a criminal case the failure of a party to call a witness does not permit the opposing party to argue, or the factfinder to draw, any inferences as to whether the witness’s testimony would be favorable or unfavorable to either party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.