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526 So. 2d 903 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
4
states following
February 2012
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably 594 So. 2d 292 - Fenelon v. State (1992), 574 So. 2d 1059 - Nibert v. State (1990)

1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions

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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 Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Proffitt v. Florida · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Bowsher v. Merck & Co.

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

  1. “classified as borderline defective or just above the level for mild mental retardation,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 813 So. 2d 68 - Crook v. State · 770 So. 2d 1119 - Kearse v. State
  2. “anything in the life of the defendant which might militate against the appropriateness of the death penalty.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 697 So. 2d 805 - Consalvo v. State · 603 So. 2d 490 - Maxwell v. State
  3. “apart from the norm of capital felonies,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 545 So. 2d 864 - Rivera v. State · 609 So. 2d 600 - Burns 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.