Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 2011
3 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 492 So. 2d 978 - Miller v. State · 412 So. 2d 241 - Bourdeaux v. State · 300 So. 2d 276 - State v. Fulkerson · Phillips v. State · 522 So. 2d 227 - State v. Bradford
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The better reasoned opinions appear to hold that where one is imprisoned under some color of law, he is not entitled to resort to self-help but must apply for his release through regular legal channels. The possibility of violence incident to a prison break dictates strongly against any other rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State · McCune 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.