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State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

434
cited by 434 later decisions
4
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

432 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 434 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Rogers (1986), State v. Stokes (1987)

432 state decisions

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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 · State v. Smith · Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp. · State v. Harvey · State v. Spencer

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 434 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Substantial evidence is such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
    45 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 257 N.C. App. 848 - State v. Phachoumphone · State v. Strickland
  2. “Where such materials are found on the premises under the control of an accused, this fact, in and of itself, gives rise to an inference of knowledge and possession which may be sufficient to carry the case to the jury on a charge of unlawful possession.”
    12 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Chekanow · State v. Thorpe
  3. “"Manufacture" means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, ... or processing of a controlled substance by any means, whether directly or indirectly, artificially or naturally[.] [However, "manufacture"] does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for his own use [.]”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 259 N.C. App. 388 - State v. Lofton · State v. Perry

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.