State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Lynch (2004), State v. Toole (1994)
31 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 Berger v. United States · State v. Jalette · Getz v. State · State v. Burke · State v. Simpson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In deciding whether to admit evidence pursuant to Rule 404(b), a trial justice must carefully weigh the possibility that this evidence will unfairly prejudice the accused, and in the event the trial justice finds that the probative value of the evidence outweighs the danger of unfair prejudice, the trial justice must offer ‘a specific instruction as to the limited purpose for which the evidence is being introduced.’ ” State v. Brown, 626 A.2d 228, 233 (R.I.1993).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valcourt“As a general rule, in the prosecution of a specific crime, evidence of past, unconnected, uncharged criminal behavior is not admissible to prove a defendant's propensity to commit the crime charged. * * * The basis for excluding such evidence of `other crimes' is the belief that `the potential for creating prejudice in the minds of the jurors outweighs its probative value.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mohapatra
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.