Ex parte Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 891 - People v. Overstreet (1986), 15 Cal. 3d 921 - In Re Podesto (1976)
1 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Commonwealth v. Lockwood · People v. Tinder & Smith · Commonwealth v. Gorham · Blaufus v. . People · Ex parte Voll
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The foregoing references show that the ordinary meaning of the word ‘conviction’ is the verdict of guilty pronounced by a jury. As said by Bead, J., speaking for the court in State v. Alexander, supra: ‘The word is ordinarily used to denote the verdict of the jury, guilty. How did the jury find? Guilty; or they convicted him. What did the judge do ? Sentenced him to be hanged. This is the language ordinarily used in such matters, both in conversation and in books, law and literary. It is never said that the jury sentenced him nor that the judge convicted him.’ ( 76 N. C. 232 .) “Now, while the word may be used as signifying the sentence pronounced on the verdict, or the record of conviction, including inter alia the verdict and sentence, still such meaning ought not to be attributed to it, unless there is something-in the context to indicate that it was used in such sense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] defendant charged with an offense punishable with death cannot be admitted to bail, when the proof of his guilt is evident or the presumption thereof great....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Convict, convictus — he that is found guilty of an offense by verdict of a jury. Crompton saith that conviction is either when a man is outlawed, or appeareth and confesseth, or is found guilty by the inquest; and when a statute excludes from clergy persons found guilty of felony, etc., it extends to those who are convicted by confessions. (2 Cromp. Just. 9.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.