Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 38th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Doyle v. Ohio · Hagemann v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n · McKinney v. Baldwin
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find no reasonable explanation for why defense counsel would open the door to this damaging extraneous evidence and aid in linking the evidence to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. State“Extraneous offenses are inherently prejudicial and when counsel fails to object to numerous extraneous and prejudicial matters, counsel is ineffective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Donald 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.