Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Tucker v. Fireman's Fund Insurance (1986), Hillard v. State (1979)
2 district · 52 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 Mazor v. State, Dep't of Correction · Aravanis v. Eisenberg · Schweitzer v. Brewer · Sherman v. Suburban Trust Co. · McDowell v. State
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the building burned must have been a dwelling house or outbuilding within the curtilage. Second, the house or building burned must have been occupied by another; ownership was not the proper test at common law. Thus where the accused burned the house which he occupied with neither purpose nor effect of bringing harm to someone else’s dwelling, the common law offense of arson was not committed. Third, mere scorching of the house was insufficient; there must have been some actual burning of the house. Fourth, the burning must have been willful and malicious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Nowhere does the record indicate that Brown had any intention to harm others or that he displayed a reckless disregard for their safety.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“wilfully and maliciously set[ting] fire to ... any ... building, whether the property of himself or of another....”
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.