Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McClain v. State · State v. Chaney · Page v. State · Williams v. State · Norris 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are few legal restrictions on the types of factors that a sentencing court can consider when assessing whether a particular sentence should fall outside the benchmark range [for second-degree murder]. As we stressed in Williams [v. State, 809 P.2d 931, 934 (Alaska App.1991)], “any sound reason may be relied on to differentiate one ease from another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. State“any sound reason may be relied on to differentiate one case from another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State
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.