Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he constitutional issue must be real and substantial, not merely color-able.” Id. When a claim is not real and substantial but, instead, merely colorable, the case is not within this Court’s exclusive jurisdiction and review in the court of appeals is proper. Recently, the court of appeals has held that cases involving many of the same constitutional claims raised by Kirk properly were reviewed in the court of appeals because those claims”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re J.D.B. · Care & Treatment of Kirk v. State

2. “[T]he [Act] “is narrowly tailored to serve [the] compelling state interest ... [of] protecting the public from crime.” “This interest justifies the differential treatment of those persons adjudicated as sexually violent predators .... ” “Because the basis for commitment of sexually violent predators is different from general civil commitments, there is no requirement 'that sexually violent predators be afforded exactly the same rights as persons committed under the general civil standard.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Underwood v. State

3. “[A]rticle V, section 3 of the Missouri Constitution vests the Missouri Supreme Court with exclusive appellate jurisdiction in all cases involving the validity of a statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re J.D.B.