Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably 684 So. 2d 736 - Chicone v. State (1996), 705 So. 2d 90 - Dupree v. State (1998)
1 district · 166 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 Frank v. State · 336 So. 2d 127 - Hively v. State · 397 So. 2d 738 - Wale v. State · Central & Southern Florida Flood Control District v. Deadwyler · Smith 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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constructive possession exists where the accused without physical possession of the controlled substance knows of its presence on or about his premises and has the ability to maintain control over said controlled substance.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“[J]oint occupancy, with or without ownership of the premises, where contraband is discovered in plain view in the presence of the owner or occupant is sufficient to support a conviction for constructive possession.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Chappell v. State · Duncan v. State“sufficient to support a conviction for constructive possession.”
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.