Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 284 - People v. Barnes (1986), 175 Wis. 2d 653 - State v. Echols (1993)
41 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Woodward v. Leavitt · State ex rel. Durner v. Huegin · Hempton v. State · Cornell v. State · Wolfgram v. Town of Schoepke
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Not only must there be entire absence of mental consent or assent, but there must be the most vehement exercise of every physical means or faculty within the woman’s power to resist the penetration of her person, and this must be shown to persist until the offense is consummated. We need not mention the exception where the power of resistance is overcome by unconsciousness, threats or exhaustion. . . . Further, it is settled in this state that no> mere general statements of the prosecutrix, involving her conclusions, that she did her utmost and the like, will suffice to establish this essential fact, but she must relate the very acts done, in order that the jury and the court may judge whether any were omitted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hoffman““The court shall, in every stage of an action, disregard any error or defect in the pleadings or proceedings which shall not affect the substantial rights of the adverse party; and no judgment shall be reversed or affected by reason of such error or defect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sprague 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.