Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 state decisions

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

1. ““The consent given in this case was that if the jury agreed upon their verdict, during a brief recess of the court, it should be returned to and received by the clerk, in the absence of the defendant. The verdict under this agreement was returned to and received by the clerk, and the jury discharged. Nothing less can be intended from the consent, than that the verdict if returned to and received by the clerk, during the recess of the court, in the absence of the defendant, and the jury discharged, should be of the same validity and operation, as if all this had occurred in open court, and in the presence of the defendant. . . . Agreements deliberately made as to the conduct and proceedings in the cause, with the sanction of the court, should be enforced according to their spirit and meaning, against defendants in criminal, as well as against suitors in civil cases.” (Brown v. The State, 63 Ala. 97, 103, 104 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Keehn

2. ““When the verdict is returned and received by the court, and the jury discharged, a memorandum of it is made, from which the record is subsequently made up. The memorandum is the record to which the statute refers; . . ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boyd v. State