Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Mayes v. State (1994), Spears v. State (1995)
3 federal appellate · 21 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Ake v. Oklahoma · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Estes v. Texas
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person . . . commits the crime of murder in the first degree when he takes the life of a human being, regardless of malice, in the commission of . . . escape from lawful custody . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tyler v. State · Hawkins v. Gibson“without the assistance of a psychiatrist to conduct a professional examination on issues relevant to the defense, to help determine whether the insanity defense is viable, to present testimony, and to assist in preparing the cross-examination of a State's psychiatric witnesses, the risk of an inaccurate resolution of sanity issues is extremely high.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an indigent defendant is not entitled to public funds to `shop around' until he finds a `hired gun' with a favorable opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ake 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.