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Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
1
states following
February 2015
most recently cited

40 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Carrillo v. State (1979), Stoker v. State (1989)

40 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 Albrecht v. State · Ransonette v. State · McDonald v. State · Thompson v. State · 140 W. Va. 875 - State v. Loveless

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

  1. “[t]he general rule against admitting evidence of other crimes by the accused is inapplicable if such evidence logically tends to show his guilt of the offense charged. In other words, relevant evidence that tends to prove that the accused committed the crime charged is not inadmissible simply because it may also reveal that he has committed other crimes.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Russell v. State · Stoker v. State
  2. “In determining whether the accused participated as a party, the court may look to events occurring before, during and after the commission of the offense, and may rely on actions of the defendant which show an understanding and common design to do the prohibited act.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hooper v. State
  3. “Unless you so find beyond a reasonable doubt, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you will acquit the Defendant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Carrillo v. State

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.