Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Kelley v. State (2009), 2013 Ark. App. 681 - Malcum v. State (2013)
108 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 Kitchen v. State · Yarbrough v. State · Sera v. State · King v. State · Gatlin 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We treat the denial of 'a motion for directed verdict as a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence. King v. State, 323 Ark. 671 , 916 S.W.2d 732 (1996). The test for determining the sufficiency of the evidence is whether there is substantial evidence to support the verdict. Id. Evidence is substantial if, when viewed in the light most favorable to the State, it is of sufficient force and character to compel reasonable minds to reach a conclusion and pass beyond sus-pidón and conjecture. Id. Matters such as evaluating a witness’s credibility and resolving inconsistencies in the evidence are issues for the jury and not the court. Phillips v. State, 344 Ark. 453 , 40 S.W.3d 778 (2001), On appellate review, it is'permissible to consider only that evidence that supports the guilty verdict. Arnett v. State, 353 Ark. 165 , 122 S.W.3d 484 (2003). A rape victim’s testimony may constitute substantial evidence to sustain a conviction of rape, even when the victim is a child. Gatlin v. State, 320 Ark. 120 , 895 S.W.2d 526 (1995). The rape victim’s testimony need not be corroborated, nor is scientific evidence required, and'the victim’s ’ testimony describing penetration is enough for a conviction. Id. The principle that a victim’s uncorroborated testimony constitutes substantial evidence to support a guilty verdict is likewise true with respect to sexual offenses other than rape. See, e.g., Arnett, 353 Ark. 165 , 122 S.W.3d 484 (incest); Laughlin v. State, 316 Ark. 489 , 872 S.W.2d ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.