Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2016
20 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Edwards v. Arizona · Oregon v. Bradshaw
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he amount of time the witness was in the presence of the perpetrator and the amount of attention the witness had focused on him, the distance between the two and the lighting conditions at the time, the witness’s capacity for observation and opportunity to perceive particular characteristics of the perpetrator, the lapse of time between the crime and the subsequent identification....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Flowers v. State · Logan v. State“away from both the Evans-ton Police Department and the officers who questioned her and from whom she requested an attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Brown v. State“under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Baird II v. Davis
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.