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State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
5
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2022

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions

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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 Miller v. California · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Cohen v. California · Pelaes v. United States · Brandenburg v. Ohio

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Labeling his preexisting felony status the product of a 'nonviolent' crime obscures its seriousness as well as the very real threat to public safety created by his continued misconduct, a threat that might well be aggravated by the availability of a firearm.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 384 Wis. 2d 222 - State v. Culver
  2. “One who has committed any felony has displayed a degree of lawlessness that makes it entirely reasonable for the legislature, concerned for the safety of the public it represents, to want to keep firearms out of the hands of such a person.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 384 Wis. 2d 222 - State v. Culver
  3. “In the absence of a challenge to the Attorney General's official explanation of the amendment, we assume that the voters intended to adopt the constitutional amendment on the terms in which it was presented to them ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wawenock, LLC v. Department of Transportation

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.