State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Garcia (2005), State v. Copeland (1986)
1 federal appellate · 94 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Rivera v. United States · State v. Bell · McGeehan v. Bunch · Ott v. Keller
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he only test ... is whether substantial evidence of either a direct or circumstantial nature exists to support a verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt with respect to every element essential to [the] conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrison v. Tansy
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.