Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Swain v. State of Alabama (1965), United States v. Wood (1936)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 57 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 Thompson v. State of Utah · Hayes v. State of Missouri · Stokes v. . People of the State of N.Y. · State v. Hoyt · Commonwealth v. Dorsey
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From the 96 names selected, the prisoner or his counsel is permitted to strike 24. The 48 names that remain after the prosecutor and the defendant have completed the striking are returned as the panel from which the jury of 12 men is to be selected. The list from which such panel is to be selected is in the hands of the defendant or his counsel at least 12 days before the impaneling of the jury____ Ample time is afforded to him between the striking of the panel of jurors to be returned and the time of drawing the trial jury to enable counsel to ascertain grounds of objection to individual jurors which would be available upon a challenge for cause, and the defendant is allowed in addition 5 peremptory challenges as the names are drawn from the box. As the right of challenge is not a right to select, but to exclude, the accused on the striking of the jury has power to exclude 24 at will, and at the drawing of the names from the box to form the jury of 12 he has in addition 5 peremptory challenges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““At common law a peace officer has a right to arrest, without warrant, one whom he suspects to be guilty of felony, although it afterwards appears that no felony was committed, provided he has reasonable cause to suspect that the person arrested has committed a felony. There is this distinction between a private individual and a constable: In order to justify the former [private individual] in causing the imprisonment of a person, he must not only make out a reasonable ground of suspicion, but he must prove that a felony was actually committed; whereas, a constable, having reasonable ground to suspect that a felony has been committed, is authorized to detain the party suspected until inquiry can be made by the proper authorities.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“While the Constitution secures the right of trial by an impartial jury, the mode of procuring and impaneling such jury is regulated by law, either common or statutory, principally the latter, and it is within the power of the legislature to make, from time to time, such changes in the law as it may deem expedient, taking care to preserve the right of trial by an impartial jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.