Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Williams v. State (1983), Felker v. State (1984)
6 federal appellate · 104 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Pate v. Robinson · Patterson v. New York
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he appropriate standard of appellate review of the sufficiency of the evidence . . . is whether, after reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the state, a rational trier of fact could have found that the defendant failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence, that [he] was insane at the time of the crime. Brown v. State, 250 Ga. 66, 72 ( 295 SE2d 727 ) (1982).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Milam v. State · Robinson v. State“Insanity may be so clear and the proof so overwhelming that a jury finding of sanity cannot be upheld.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. State · State v. Matthews“`special plea of insanity' is a misnomer because the issue is one of incompetence [to stand trial] rather than insanity. Echols v. State, 149 Ga. App. 620 ( 255 SE2d 92 ) (1979). A general plea of insanity, on the other hand, raises insanity as a defense and is an inquiry into whether the defendant could distinguish between right and wrong, or was suffering from a delusional compulsion, at the time of the crime. [OCGA §§ 16-3-2, 16-3-3 (Code Ann. §§ 26-702, 26-703)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler 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.