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← 690 SO2D 276 - Brown v. State

Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

109
cited by 109 later decisions
2
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

101 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Gray v. State (1998), 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State (2001)

101 state decisions

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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 Walton v. Arizona · Lowenfield v. Phelps · Clemons v. Mississippi · Lewis v. Jeffers · Cupp v. Murphy

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

  1. “discretion of the trial judge runs toward almost unlimited admissibility regardless of the gruesomeness, repetitiveness, and the extenuation of probative value.”
    11 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Brooks v. State · Gray v. State
  2. “Counsel was not required to be logical in argument; he is not required to draw sound conclusions, or to have a perfect argument measured by logical and rhetorical rules; his function is to draw conclusions and inferences from evidence on behalf of his client in whatever he deems proper, so long as he does not become abusive and go outside the confines of the record.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 859 So. 2d 320 - McGowen v. State · 842 So. 2d 531 - Flowers v. State
  3. “Generally, we have not found the right to a fair trial to have been abridged where the defendant has been seen in the courtroom by the jury in shackles or handcuffs.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Roach v. State · McGilberry 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.