Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"We are further of the view that any error in the admission of such testimony was waived and/or cured by defense counsel’s failure to object to similar testimony later elicited. Although defense counsel did timely object to certain portions of the testimony regarding complainant’s emotional injuries when it was first elicited, he did not obtain a running objection to such testimony, and complainant later testified, without objection: that she had attempted suicide twice, the first time a month after the rape; that she was hospitalized both times; and that she had had continuing counseling since the rape. It is defense counsel’s responsibility to object every time allegedly inadmissible evidence is offered, and when counsel objects to certain inadmissible testimony, but then permits similar evidence to come in without objection, the complaint is deemed cured." Id. at 151.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ethington v. State

2. “the state was entitled to offer relevant proof tending to show that complainant had not consented to engage in the act of sexual intercourse.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brown v. State