Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Chambers v. Mississippi (1973), Jones v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Greenfield v. . People of the State of N.Y. · State v. Duncan · Snow v. State · State v. Fletcher · Davis v. Commonwealth
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The hazard he assumed was not, therefore, one of very great gravity, especially as his running away on being released goes strongly to show that ... he did not intend to incur any decided risk, and was ready to recant his confession as soon as it had served its purpose or exposed him to any great peril. ( Brown, 99 Miss. at 729 , 55 So. at 962 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that testimony going to show confessions and admissions on the part of third persons made out of court is not admissible in exculpation of those on trial for crime. It is mere hearsay, and is excluded for this reason, although other reasons doubtless exist in the uncertainty to which it would subject all criminal proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Many motives apart from the love of truth and justice, induce men to assume the gravest risks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.