State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Thomas (2004), State v. Thomas (2004)
3 federal appellate · 49 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 Green v. United States · Benjamin v. United States · 90 Wash. 2d 443 - State v. Workman · 119 Wash. 2d 401 - State v. Strauss · 118 Wash. 2d 424 - State v. Markle
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`under certain external circumstances of physical shock, a stress of nervous excitement may be produced which stills the reflective faculties and removes their control.' The utterance of a person in such a state is believed to be `a spontaneous and sincere response . . .' rather than an expression based on reflection or self-interest."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ohlson · State v. Ohlson“key determination is `whether the statement was made while the declarant was still under the influence of the event to the extent that [the] statement could not be the result of fabrication, intervening actions, or the exercise of choice or judgment.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is thus apparent that T.G.'s testimony that she had the opportunity to, and did in fact, decide to fabricate a portion of her story prior to making the 911 call renders erroneous the trial court's conclusion that the content of her call was admissible as an excited utterance. Therefore, the 911 tape is to be excluded on remand.”
3 later decisions 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.