Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
August 2006
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 294th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Garrett v. State · Stogsdill v. State · Lloyd v. State · Brooks v. State · Pierce 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that [the defendant] had the prohibited drug within his system is circumstantial evidence that he was in possession of a usable quantity of the drug prior to taking it.... We find that the incriminating circumstances of a concentration of marijuana in [the defendant’s] urine greater than would exist from passive inhalation, excludes every reasonable hypothesis other than his guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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