Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Tavares v. State (2001), Burton v. State (2002)
36 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Idaho v. Wright · White v. Illinois · Williamson v. United States · Messenger v. Anderson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expresses the practice of courts generally to refuse to reopen what has been decided.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“prohibits character evidence for the purpose of showing that the defendant acted in conformity with his 'bad character, but permits the use of such evidence for other purposes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[elvi-dence of a person's character or a trait of his character is not admissible for the purpose of proving that he acted in conformity therewith on a particular oceasion[.]”
2 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.