Efrid Brown and William J. Johnson, Jr. v. Frank O. Gunter, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 122 · 1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2015
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Mapp v. Ohio · North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Green v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the State with all its resources and power should not be allowed to make repeated attempts to convict an individual for an alleged offense, thereby subjecting him to embarrassment, expense and ordeal and compelling him to live in a continuing state of anxiety and insecurity, as well as enhancing the possibility that even though innocent he may be found guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may remain undischarged ... though discharge may have been spoken by the court, if ... it remains an undispersed unit, within the control of the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.