Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2018
15 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · Arizona v. Fulminante · Thompson v. Keohane
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compelled the complainant to submit and participate by threatening to use force and violence against the complainant, and the complainant believed that the defendant had the present ability to execute the threat, and by acts and words the defendant placed the complainant in fear that serious bodily injury would be imminently inflicted on the complainant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. State“In the present case, although the specific protections of article 38.22 requiring written warnings and findings by the trial court concerning the voluntary nature of the statement are statutory, they are meant to implement the broader constitutional protection against involuntary or coerced confessions and are thus of “constitutional dimension.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. State“ready to take place, near at hand, impending, hanging threateningly over one's head, menacingly near.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re AC
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.