Brown v. Brittain’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2021
14 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 Buchalter v. People of State of New York Weiss · White v. Pearlman · Shields v. Beto · United States v. Martinez · Green v. Christiansen
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a prisoner is discharged from a penal institution `without any contributing fault on his part' ... his sentence continues to run while he is at liberty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A convicted person will not be excused from serving his sentence merely because someone in a ministerial capacity makes a mistake with respect to its execution. Several additional factors must be present before relief will be granted — the result must not be attributable to the defendant himself; the action of the authorities must amount to more than simple neglect; and the situation brought about by defendant’s release and his reincarceration must be ‘unequivocally inconsistent with “fundamental principles of liberty and justice.” ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Stark
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.