Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Harris v. State (1992), McKay v. State (1985)
58 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 Alejandro v. State · Todd v. State · Carrillo v. State · Vanderbilt v. State · Cannon v. State
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Your Honor, we would object to the page which I have just shown the court, which begins, `The State of Texas, number 4326' on the grounds that it's immaterial and irrelevant in this particular hearing, and it's inadmissible for purposes of showing the kind of prior record in a punishment hearing. After this objection was overruled, appellant's counsel further objected: We would object that, throughout this exhibit there are references made to probation. We would objectthey are contained in several pages throughout the exhibit. I believe the Court has seen the exhibit earlier today. We object to each and every reference in the exhibit to probation, and ask the court to strike the same out.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. State“[State]: Ladies and gentlemen, Abraham Campos, unfortunately, murdered Martin Rodriguez. I can’t change that fact. I’m submitting it to your hands because I know it’s the truth. That’s what happened on August the 21st, 1992. [Defense Atty]: Your Honor, I’m going to object to the argument that she knows the truth. That is improper. That’s a comment on the weight of the evidence. I’m going to object to it and ask the Court to instruct the jury to disregard it. [Court]: As to the prosecutors’ knowledge, I’ll sustain that objection. [Defense Atty]: And I move for a mistrial, Your Honor. [Court]: I’ll overrule that.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campos v. State“But you are all smart people. You came to the right decision in the guilt innocence (sic) phase and I am sure that you will make a fair decision on the punishment phase. The most important thing is that you reach a verdict. If you are unable to reach a verdict, we will have to try this whole case over. Okay? And I don’t think Gloria Jean Flores is going to be up to testifying another time about what happened to her. So, you need to reach a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodriguez 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.