Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2016
13 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Jackson v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite
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.
“The seven photographs shown Line-berry and Scott were mug shots from the files of the Jefferson County Police Department. In each photograph a board was suspended from around the neck of the individual. Each board contained information for identification purposes. In the case of Brown and Hill [the appellants], each board contained the abbreviation “ROB” and the date “November 17, 1975.” In the other five photographs, the boards did not contain the robbery date of November 17, 1975, nor were any two dates the same. Only one of the other five photographs contained the abbreviation “ROB.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If ... a defendant moves to suppress, ... the fruits of a search, the trial court shall conduct an evidentiary hearing ... and at the conclusion thereof shall enter into the record findings resolving the essential issues of fact raised by the motion ... and necessary to support the ruling. If supported by substantial evidence the factual findings of the trial court shall be conclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.