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← 809 P.2d 421 - Brown v. State

Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
December 2009
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Texas v. Brown · Cooksey v. State · Reeves v. State · Schraff 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'It is possible that in deciding [Reevesl] the supreme court was influenced by the fact that a 'balloon could be one of those rare single-purpose containers which by their very nature cannot support any reasonable expectation of privacy because their contents can be inferred from their outward appearance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “contraband nature of the balloon ... was immediately apparent to the officer who seized it”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.