Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A prosecutor has the responsibility of a minister of justice and not simply that of an advocate.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Richardson v. State · Nunley v. State

2. “the prosecutor was certainly entitled to respond to defense counsel's accusation in closing argument that the State had overlooked or even covered up evidence that could vindicate Brown. It is not so apparent that the prosecutor's remarks crossed the line into misconduct that we can say the trial judge abused her discretion.”

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

3. “is a call best placed in the hands of trial judges.”

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