State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2015
23 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 Faretta v. California · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite · Beck v. Alabama
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e require that a lesser included offense instruction be given when warranted on account of the danger that, absent such an instruction, a jury may erroneously convict a criminal defendant of the principal offense charged, despite the prosecution’s inability to prove an element of that offense, when the jury is convinced that the defendant’s conduct was criminal.” Brown, 549 A.2d at 1378 (quoting State v. Hockenhull, 525 A.2d 926, 930 (R.I.1987)); see also Cipriano, 430 A.2d at 1260-61 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rodriguez
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.