People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Brown v. Keane (2004), 103 Conn. App. 646 - State v. Torelli (2007)
4 federal appellate · 19 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 People v. Brown · People v. Watson · People v. Luke
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“spontaneous descriptions of events made substantially contemporaneously with the observations are admissible if the descriptions are sufficiently corroborated by other evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Buie“The admission of a hearsay statement under any exception deprives the defendant of the right to test the accuracy and trustworthiness of the statement by cross-examination”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Cummings“[i]f [the] eyewitness is available to testify to the events, there is certainly no pressing need for the hearsay testimony”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Buie
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.