Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2008
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Voss v. Ralston · Vigil v. State · DeHerrera v. Herrera · Goodman v. State · Fuller 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever, while armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon, including an unloaded firearm, maliciously perpetrates an assault or an assault and battery upon any human being, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than fourteen (14) years, or both.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““This adopts the rule which has been denominated in some jurisdictions as a ‘show of violence rule’ mentioned in State v. Sawyer, 28 N.C.App. 490 , 221 S.E.2d 518, 520 .” 590 P.2d at 1315 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edge v. State““ * * * this statute now appears to be directed at the effect upon or the apprehension of the victim of the assault.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edge 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.