Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2017
15 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 Songer v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Et Al. · Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. v. Lipton · Burris v. State · Inman v. State · Smith v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We fail to find that appellant has presented anything that was “highly unusual or potentially damaging” so as to require individual voir dire. From the record, the jurors chosen formed no opinions or if they had, they were able to put them aside. The jurors also stated that they were aware of their duty to follow the instructions presented by the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“establish that the potential jurors were unable to set aside their preconceived notions of guilt and render a verdict based upon the evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re TB“evidence of pretrial publicity sufficient to create community bias or prejudice,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re TB
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.