Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 55 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A motion to withdraw a plea of guilty may be made only before sentence is imposed or when imposition of sentence is suspended; but to correct manifest injustice the court after sentence may set aside the judgment of conviction and permit the defendant to withdraw his plea.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Paden · King v. State

2. “(1) a claim of actual innocence or (2) a jurisdictional defect or (3)(a) that the procedural defect was caused by something external to the defense — that is, a cause for which the defense is not responsible — and (b) prejudice resulted from the underlying error that worked to the petitioner’s actual and substantial disadvantage.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Green v. Moore · Cooper v. State

3. “a motion under the second clause of Rule 29.07(d) to set aside a conviction and withdraw a guilty plea after sentence but before remand to the DOC” would be the proper course of action to raise claims enumerated in Rule 24.035). 2 . Missouri law requires a party to appeal a judgment”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Franklin v. Hawley · State v. Ison