State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably State v. Gilman (1972), State v. Lerner (1973)
31 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 State v. Domanski · State v. Smith · State v. Milne · State v. Scofield · State v. Davis and Quigg
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Reasonable and prudent speeds.&emdash;No person shall drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to' the actual and potential hazards then existing. In every event, speed shall be so- controlled as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle, or other conveyance on or entering the highway in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to use due care.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Campbell
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.