Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2018
13 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 Burks v. United States · Lockhart v. Nelson · Wright v. State · Hall v. State · Evans 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““where the appellate court reverses the conviction for ‘trial error’ and the evidence offered by the State and admitted by the trial court — whether erroneously or not— would have been sufficient to sustain a guilty verdict, no double jeopardy question is presented on retrial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State“'[t}he trier of fact must usually resort to cireumstantial evidence or reasonable inferences drawn from examination of the circumstances surrounding the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickenson 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.