Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
December 2007
most recently cited
32 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gardner v. State · Fugate v. State · Mitchem v. State · Marshall v. State · Edgecomb 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“manifestly unreasonable in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Winn v. State · Buchanan v. State“'are not mitigating or aggravating factors as those terms are used in the sentencing statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining whether a sentence is manifestly unreasonable, 'the issue is not whether in our judgment the sentence is unreasonable, but whether it is clearly, plainly, and obviously so”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buchanan 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.