Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
June 2007
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Widener v. State · Carter v. State · Williams v. State · Garrett v. State · Walton 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficiently mitigating that the maximum sentence is manifestly unreasonable.” However, the Carter Court also stated that, the defendant’s age of fourteen was a much more powerful factor than a defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. State“a defendant's youth, although not identified as a statutory mitigating cireumstance, is a significant mitigating circumstance in some circum-stances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Truax 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.