682 So. 2d 340 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Gray v. State (1998), 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State (2001)
92 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 Furman v. Georgia · Massiah v. United States · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Lowenfield v. Phelps · Clemons v. Mississippi
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an objection at trial cannot be enlarged in a reviewing court to embrace an omission not complained of at trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Each case must be decided on its own peculiar fact situation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At the request of a party the court shall order witnesses excluded so that they cannot hear the testimony of other witnesses, and it may make the order of its own motion. This rule does not authorize exclusion of (1) a party who is a natural person, or (2) an officer or employee of a party which is not a natural person designated as its representative by its attorney, or (3) a person whose •presence is shown by a party to be essential to the presentation of his cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.